It was time to get moving again. B4Checkout would depart before us from Hoffman Cay to make their way to Nassau. Sarah and David needed to drop off their guest David to catch his flight back to Canada and also secure a portable generator.
Instead of heading to Nassau with B4Checkout, we would buddy boat with Dale and Debbie to the next island over, Bond Cay to hide out from more weather headed our way. If there is anything you pick up from any of these posts it should be that so much of what we get to do or where we get to go is based on Mother Nature. We arrived at Bond Cay and hunkered down for the night.
After a few nights at Bond we made our way to Nassau to join B4Checkout at Rose Island. We would then make our way to Shroud Cay to grab a mooring ball and ride out more bad weather. Shroud Cay is part of the Exumas Cay Land and Sea Park. It was a bit rolly when we arrived so we decided to wait a day to do the dinghy ride through the mangroves.
10-7 Freedom Retreat arrived later in the day. Dwight and his wife Shelley are from Oklahoma and have the same boat as we have. They too have dogs on board, 3 of them. It is fun to hear them pull into the anchorage because you can hear the dogs bark. The following day we would join the 10-7 Freedom gang along with B4Checkout for a dinghy run through the mangroves. The first pass was early in the morning at low tide. This pass was a little challenging as the water was pretty shallow. We would go back later in the afternoon for a pass when the tide was higher and the sun was out.
