Heading south and east

We have been at Rum Cay since Wednesday, thinking we would need to wait out some weather, but have decided that we still have a window ahead of it to make a good run, with winds from the northeast, from here to Mayaguana, about 145 nauticals. We can bail out to Crooked Island if it is too rough out there, but if we don't go now we are going to be stuck again next week when the wind clocks to the south.

Rum Cay is gorgeous; you can go to https://picasaweb.google.com/raconteurcrew/201104GeorgetownToRumCay# to see the album of our trip from Georgetown to Long Island to Conception to Rum.

but here are a couple of pictures.

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We had the most amazing meal at Kaye's last night (that's her in the first picture above); she cooks in a kitchen that is about the size of our galley but considerably older, and we had a feast. Some kind of soup, followed by grilled wahoo, a potato-lima bean casserole, one of the best cabbage salads I have ever had, if not the best, and, of course Bahamian peas and rice. $20 a head.

Once we reach Mayaguana, I may be have email but probably no other internet access. We will need to hang there until the middle of next week (27th or 28th) before we make the easterly run to the Turks and Caicos.

Having a blast...big surprise. Looking forward to the next legs of the journey.

Oh, one more cooking note. Made a fish chowder in the pressure cooker yesterday, first making fumet from the grouper parts (and ceusing our grouper fingers and some frozen scallops. It will be our dinner underway tonight.