Boy, what a windy year it’s been down here.  Hot too – but no one wants to hear that!

The best part has been a visit from Benj!  He got to escape Vermont’s cold for a week, even though his original flight was delayed, delayed, then cancelled until the next day.

Lots of good eats!  Unfortunately, the lobster wasn’t caught by us, but still tasted great.

A good father/son project – baking rum cake from scratch.  Very, very carefully pouring the rum syrup on top – it’s the most important part!

What else to do on a windy night?  A bourbon tasting of course, although perhaps we should have had Benj try to teach us a new card game first …

Paddleboarding, kayaking, swimming, body surfing in the ocean surf, a beach walk, exploring the Loyalist ruins on Crab Cay, chasing after turtles in the dinghy, then two sharks chasing us provided a fun, but busy week.  As always, it goes by much too quickly.

When it was time to get Benj ashore for a taxi ride to the airport, it was too windy to dinghy to the usual dock in Lake Victoria, so we brought him up a creek to a laundromat, which kinda makes sense considering we buy our lobster at the beauty salon.

This American Oyster Catcher has been hanging around us for a few days.

Our friend Cort & his grandson Max are back!

Always nice to be welcomed to the Exumas – this guy was practically doing flips!  He made several leaps completely out of the water off our bow before I could even grab the camera.  But a private fireworks display too … enough – stop it!

It was private fireworks, but not just for us – we were anchored off Musha Cay in the Exumas, owned by David Copperfield who operates a small mega-luxury resort on his islands.  We anchored off for free & enjoyed his fireworks show, but to stay at his resort starts at $52,500.00 per night, but that covers up to 24 people, so bring your friends!

These were our “buddy boats” also anchored off Musha Cay.  The 164′ yacht on the left named “Omaha” is practically brand-new – only a year old.  We couldn’t see a name on the right-hand ship but it’s color scheme was identical – could it be an accompanying “fun ship” to hold all of the water toys?  It’s almost believable as some yachts have multiple water slides, water toys, jet skies, tenders of all sizes, tents they set up on beaches, swim platforms, towers to jump off of & weird “water bikes” that speed thru the water & then race up onto the beach.

It was a bit of a challenging year to have gotten down here, but our view out onto Elizabeth Harbour makes it all worth it!