Friday 15 January–Black Point – Little Farmers Cay , Exumas Bahamas. 14 miles.

We listen to Chris Parker, the weather guru, every morning at 06:30 and the forecast is for a new cold front with westerly components to arrive sometime during the weekend. The Black Point anchorage is protected for N-NE-E-SE but totally open to the west.
Time to move on and find some protection.
We pointed the bow south with the intention of anchoring inside Musha Cay some 15-20 miles south. Half way into the south leg we changed our mind and called Ocean Cabin at Little Farmers and requested a mooring. Little Farmers sounded really cool in the guide books, the only draw back being that the entrance was a bit tricky with shallow sand bars and coral reefs. It looked like we might be in for some nail biting visual piloting to get in there. It looked worse than what is was, with Maria on the bow looking out for dark spots and the Garmin handheld with explorer charts firmly in my left hand I managed to steer the good ship Querencia to a safe landing at a mooring ball in a superbly protected anchorage.

As a side note, for those of you with Raymarine Chartplotters and Navionics charts, these charts are nearly useless for the Bahamas, trust them and you shall run aground! We purchased a little Garmin handheld plotter (Oregon 400C) with US east coast and Bahamas for about $400 – proved to be a well worth investment.

Maria recieved her Dinghy Learners Permit...



Crew of Dana .. Jim and Bonnie... Exiting Iguana Cave....