The life of a cruising boy. He’s reading library books on his kindle from the last time we had internet, eating a Nutella sandwich on home made bread because store bought bread doesn’t last the many weeks between shopping trips. His conch shells in the back ground, and little sister’s bathing suit on the seat next to him, thinking about his next adventure.
At first glance Hawksbill Cay didn’t look like it had much to offer, but after looking at the pictures, there were all kinds of cool things to check out. Roy and I snorkeled Topaz to the beach and came across this lobster molt. The lobsters in the Bahamas Land and Sea park are pretty big and enjoying the government protection they get in the park.
Roy got his chance with the new camera. All photo sessions start with a selfie. Roy complained that his mask was leaking. This fancy mask came apart with one screw, they cleaned the sand out of the rim and he’s off chasing sea critters again.
We saw a few new creatures like this sea turtle with a remora attached.
Out of this huge sand bottom bay there was one patch of coral teaming with life.
I can never get enough of looking at this beautiful undersea garden.
Topaz always goes snorkeling with us. If we can’t get her to go in the right direction, we can steer her by pointing her shoulders to where we want to go.
The beach is usually her goal. She could spend hours trudging back and forth in the shallow water pouncing on little floating things like leaves and sticks and occasionally a fish catches her eye as it zips by. Topaz gets NO naps. She starts her day begging for pancakes and waiting for us to finish work and school. By noon she’s wet and stays that way until sundown. I’ve started giving her an extra meal in the middle of the day because her bones are starting to show a bit. But I’ve never seen anyone happier than Topaz with her tail wagging at full speed as she searching for something interesting in the water.
According to Wikipedia During the American Revolution the Bahamas was controlled by Spain and then later recaptured by the British who issued land grants to American Loyalists who brought their slaves with them. The British Navy also liberated Africans from foreign slave ships and resettled them in the Bahamas. In the 1820s American slaves and Black Seminoles escaped from Florida and settled here as well.
Hawksbill Cay has ruins of an old Loyalist settlement, so a hike was in order.
The island is a thick jungle of trees on lava and sand. It’s a wonder anything can grow. This path led us to the east side of the island where flotsam and jetsam collects on the beach. We spent a few hours picking through plastic and glass trash. We found a home made float constructed out of plastic bottles held together in a fishing net.
Note to the Aanonsons- Marie takes her Christmas Candy Jar with her everywhere she goes. Normally she stores a few My Little Ponies in it.
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We found other interesting things like plastic water and fuel jugs without tops, how about a glass of wine? YUCK!
Eric stumbled across a piece of Space Trash. We can’t find anything that says its not space trash so that’s the story we’re sticking with.
I thought maybe we crashed on the planet of the apes or something. Under the skin of hatch was this corrugated metal heat insulating like stuff.
The girls got tired of looking for the ruins and decided to dig holes and play in the sand. Eric found a perfectly good gas jug with the boat name MoonDancer on in. It looks like it was lost recently, so now we’re on a quest to find it’s owner.
Back at the boat while the kids are doing math, Eric is tearing apart the generator looking for any other fried parts and learning about how its put together.
He even had to make a puller to pop off parts.
The new activity for the week is pushing the boom out over the water, jumping in, and then climbing up the rope ladder Roy made to climb up for another jump.
Our water saving plan includes paper plates. Sounds good except that we don’t have a place to put trash. Right now it looks like we can squish our trash down to one bag a week and a small bag of paper to burn. Roy, our first class boy scout, is in charge of the fire.
On our last morning here, with better directions, we took another hike to the ruins. The cemented rock cubes are very small, maybe 8 feet square. We saw a few foundations and then Genny started getting mosquito bites so we ran back to the safety of the water.
This curly tail lizard was nice enough to pose for us on the way. Like most lizards, these guys can drop their tail to fool predators, so a stubby tail lizard wasn’t an uncommon site.
