Day #20: The winds have been blowing a sustained 25kts. Thinking that it might be a local phenomenon we drop the mooring ball in Little Farmers and head north. Sure enough, the winds decrease to 15kts once we clear the slot between the cays. The easterlies are blocked by the islands so the seas around us are realatively calm. And so it stays all the way to the anchorage at Big Majors Cay. In a pouring rain we drop the hook next to Egret, a Nordhaven '46. Not long later we see Egret's crew braving the weather and heading our way in their dink. After inviting Scott and Mary aboard we all sit down with some hot tea. Hot tea, in the Exumas, in late April? These cool, 69F, temperatures can't be normal. Egret left the States seven years ago and has completed a circumnavigation. Not many trawlers can make that claim. Scott and Mary regailed us with some great stories and the afternoon passed in a blink.
It was raining and blowing so hard that a little green bird with a yellow breast took refuge on Nellie and stayed aboard well into the night. Dancing on the hook in Big Majors Cay. 17nm today and 445nm thus far. DBH
