We made it!

 

Finally in the Exuma chain of islands within the Bahamas. The chain extends for about 130 miles roughly north to south and the water is clear and every island has it’s own charm. As you can see, Edie took the ocean passage in stride!

 

This was taken by one of our buddie boats

You can be in a quite anchorage by yourself or srounded by half a dozen other boats. We ended up at Norman’s Cay (every island is called a “Cay”). We also went walking in the shallows and found several nice conch.

On one of the islands there is a ruin of a house that Walt and I went to explore.

 Afterwards, we walked around to the other side of the island and found the remains of a wooden boat. You could still see the bits of cloth that they pounded in between the planks to make the boat watertight! 

 

All of the ribs still showed the marks from shapping them



just cut up cotton cloth pounded between the planks!