Day #12: Roderwick Wells Cay is about two miles long. Nellie is currently riding to a mooring ball on its southeast side. Today we decided to trek the length of the island. On a map this looked fairly straight forward. Reality was another matter. First of all cenotes, deep water filled holes, litter the island so you must always look down or risk falling into one of them. If the cenotes don't get you, the ubiquitous limestone, which everywhere has erroded to knife-edge sharpness, surely will. So how bad can a two mile hike be? It took an hour and a half, walking at a healthy pace, to go one mile. At the halfway point we found ourselves standing atop a hillock where we could see both Nellie and the north end of the island. We debated going on but realized our little hike would turn into a 6 hour affair. With the siren call of cool drinks waiting aboard Nellie we retraced our steps. Within 100 yards of the trail's beginnng we ran across other cruisers just starting the hike north. One woman in their party was wearing high-heeled sandals--clearly the wrong shoe selection ;-)
The winds are building as the front approaches. Happy to be on a mooring ball in Roderwick Wells South. 0 nm today and 383nm total. DBH.
