Highbourne Cay (Part 2)

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John & Jane Craven
Thu 13 Dec 2012 17:43
After yesterday's excitement we decided to have an easy day and spend time on board - we had a few jobs to do, one being the generator which seemed to be overheating a little. 2 hours later we had changed the impellor, and all was running smoothly. What I can't believe is how many sharks there are here in Highbourne Cay! There are sharks passing under the boat regularly, I have never seen so many, anywhere! There is also a huge barracuda cruising around as well, he must be at least 6 feet and is very scary! John needed a haircut this morning, and afterwards we thought we could both go for a swim, John to rinse the hairs off and me for a bit of fun - not so. John sat in the dinghy and was looking down to see if he could see Pat's sunglasses she had dropped yesterday, and there was a huge shark under out boat, added to this another huge fish was hanging off our keel - the swim idea was quickly abandoned as far too scary. It was noticeable that in out of all the boats in the anchorage, no-one was swimming at all, very unusual. Later in the afternoon, John joined Stuart to hunt for Pat's glasses, after a while they found them but neither was keen to go in and retrieve them as by this time the barracuda had decided to hang round the dinghies! I can't tell you how beautiful it is here - so many people said that with boats as deep as ours that the Bahamas was basically off limits - this is not the case and had we listened to them we would have missed out on so many amazingly fabulous places. |