Green Turtle

We travelled the short distance from Treasure Cay through the Whale Cay Passage in flat calm weather.  The Whale can be very dangerous in rough weather, but not today.  We anchored behind Noname Cay adjacent to Green Turtle's "Sand Dollar Beach" and gathered good shells for two days.  Here's a typical view of the waters from the bridge; this is what we see every day while underway.

Dawn at Noname Cay.

 From Noname we went to Black Sound in Green Turtle Cay for a night.  The entance channel is marked with "day marks for dummies" -- the color always tells which side of a mark to pass, but these guys throw in arrows just in case.

 Views of Black Sound

 New Plymouth is the village on Green Turtle.  The houses are all painted in tropical pastels.  This is a pretty town, very well kept.

We moved to Bluff House at White Sound on the other end of Green Turtle for a few days waiting for the winds to die down before heading home.  Bluff House is like a good stateside yacht club.

This is a view from Bluff House across the anchorage to New Plymouth.

Nancy looking for shells and stuff at the beach below the bluff.  She found several large sea urchin shells.

She also found some mystery objects.  These large blobs of slime appear to ooze out of holes in the sand.  Anyone know what they are?  (Laura B. says they're egg casings.)

She found an injured sea star too.

We don't know what these are.

About once a week Bluff House they serve a Bahamian buffet:  fish, lobster, chicken and ribs with peas & rice, corn bread, etc. 

Sometimes a Junkanoo band shows up.  (Junkanoo: think island mardi gras.)  All instruments (except the police whistle) are percussive, and very loud.  The players march slowly in tiny half-steps to a persistent island rhythm that gets into your bones.

These bass drums are made from big cardboard barrels that are used to ship certain kinds of dry goods.

 We don't know what the costumes signify.  Some items appear store-bought, others home-made.