SeaZen

I’m highlighting our trip from Nassau.

We set of from Nassau, to a place called Allen’s Key. When we got to Allen’s Key we went right to anchoring. After that we went swimming off the boat. I went diving on the anchor and I was swimming around the boat having a great time. The Hook crew came over to our boat and I went with them to a little snorkeling trip around the sand bar. The next day we went to a snorkel and spear fishing trip. It was a rocky ride; my dad broke a pin on the engine. We fixed it on the beach. There was not a fish to spear. There were so many Iguanas on that island.

We went to Highborne Key a few days later and everything was good. We met up with friends Monty & Betsy on Salsa, and we met up with Gary & Ann on a boat named Flyght that we saw in the Chesapeake. We went snorkeling in a great reef called the Octopus’s Garden. It was great. There were so many fish and plant life. I saw all types of fish every shape and size. We had a beach powwow that night, with two types of fish, snapper and some grunts that we got from some local fishermen.

We left the next day to go back to Allen’s Key to seek safe harbor because a storm front was coming. When we sailed into Allen’s Key we tackled with the anchors for a while until Steve came and helped. We had a good time there again.

We left Allen’s Key at around 9:30 in the morning. We sailed for about half the day. Everything was going great but the wind had really died and there was not much to move the boat or cool us so- we dropped sail and motored for a good while. It was getting pretty hot and mom wanted to put up a little tent -like thing to block the sun. It just was not doing the trick so mom said that we should jump in and cool off. It worked!

We pulled into Wardrick Wells in the Exuma Park. We did not go ashore the first night. We were too tired. Last night in the moonlight we went up the Boo Boo Hill trail, trying to see Murphy the Headless Horror.(Murphy was marooned  by some local fishermen people think they know why they put him there but it was never proved. They left him he so they could get back to Georgetown before the weather. He died. The fishermen came back and they found him dead. They took his head as evidence. Now he is a ghost looking for it.)

We had dinner on the beach with the Henry’s before the hike. It was great!! The food was great too!! There was pasta. I had like 7ths on that; potatoes; and a salad. It was magnificent!! During dinner we had some visitors: the Bahamas only land mammal, the hutia. They were like a guinea pig with a rat’s tail. They were so cute.   Then we went up the trail and we crossed Banshee Creek in the middle of the night. It was amazing! The water was up to my knees, and you could see the bottom; it was that clear. At the top of the Boo Boo Hill trail there was a big drift wood pile. Cruisers put their names on pieces of drift wood and put them in the pile. We and the Henry’s wrote on our own drift wood and we set them on the pile. After that we went to the blow holes and had some Blow Hole Pie!!! (Key Lime Pie with meringue on top which we carried to the top of the hill with us.) We had a lot of fun and we stood over the blow holes, and we had a death grip on that pie. Then we walked back to the dinghies, retracing our steps and got back home safely.

That’s the trip so far!