We left you hangin’ since last spring as we were leaving the Exumas & beginning our trek back north.  On our way from the Bahamas to Florida, we traveled thru the Berry Islands via an unusual, shallow route.  This banks route is a bit of a shortcut which takes you about 20 miles from Bonds Cay to Great Harbour Cay.

Without a chart plotter you’d have no idea where to go, as the bottom everywhere looks just like this.  However most of the banks are only 1′ – 3′ deep!  On our chartplotter, Explorer Charts shows a little dotted line to safely  bring you thru a narrow path of slightly deeper water.  This was our second trip via this route, but we decided to kick things up a notch & anchor overnight right in the midst of it all.

Time for a sunset paddle- hope to return before dark

Of course, I had to paddleboard into the sunset.  Lori was probably doing some planning . . .

I did make it back & then we did make it the approximately 1,200 miles back to New England for the summer without any real issues or problems.

Russ

Lori working away

After 8 industrious years of keeping up this blog, Lori is reluctantly being torn away by her blossoming jewelry & beading creations.  That, along with cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, boat chores, keeping the boat log, navigating, trip planning & all doesn’t leave her with too much spare time!  So Lori has “suggested” that I take over, particularly since I was the one who started this blog back in 2010 & well, pretty much started the whole crazy idea of cruising full-time on a boat.

I’m warning y’all I won’t be able to do as good of a job as Lori, but since I don’t want to take over the cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry …. It looks like you’re stuck with me for a while …

Russ