Saturday, March 14, 2009

Back to Little Farmers Cay, Exumas

Day 95- Chilly Sail Back North to Revisit Little Farmers Cay

On today, Saturday, March 7th, our REVISED travel plans have us heading north along the string of Exuma Cays to Little Farmers Cay. Our visit there last month had been very brief as we were running out of cash and there seems to be no way to get cash on Little Farmers—hard to believe, isn’t! We had only enough cash to order two cheese burgers and Ocean Cabin’s drink special (a sea-blue concoction we’ve mentioned in Day 64 blog). From that visit back on Feb 4th, we sailed directly to George Town—the land of ATMs (we mean “ATM” as there’s only one).

From these pictures, you can tell that our seven hour sail back to Little Farmers Cay was a chilly one, but hopefully you can also tell that we’re pretty happy sailors! Plus, we have plenty of cash this time!





















We anchored on the southern shore of Little Farmers to shelter from the high winds. To get to Ocean Cabin from the southern anchorage requires a little hike, so we found our sandals down under some bags and strapped them on for our first walk on land in almost a week. Our cruising guide alerted us that there was a dump for our trash and the sketch of the little island road showed that we would be hiking right past the town dump on our way to the restaurant! This is great—and we are not kidding! We had a weeks’ collection of garbage on board and were most happy to contribute to the town dump.
Our cruising guide also included the names of the nice folks who own and operate Ocean Cabin—Earnestine and Terry Bain—which came in handy when we discovered the restaurant locked. It was 5:30 and we were hungry for dinner. John just hiked back down the hill and asked the guys playing dominoes near the dock where Earnestine was. The guys pointed to the house just up the hill from the restaurant and told him that Earnestine was home although her husband and children weren’t back from their visit to Black Point Settlement yet. They may be lacking in ATMs but they certain have a good communication system.
Earnestine said she’d be glad to open up for us as soon as she got her laundry off the clothes line. She cooked up some good chicken and rice & peas. We hooked up to their wireless internet which was $10 per hour and settled in to post blogs and read email (as quickly as possible!). Later Terry and their two kids got back from Black Sound with lots of tales of their day at the festival sponsored by the all-age school in the settlement. Terry is an interesting fellow who is very concerned that the evils of politics and rich investors are destroying the Bahamas. Here is his website http://www.oceancbn.com/ . It might have some of his articles on the Bahama problem or it may just be advertisement for their restaurant—either way, it should be interesting. We have not checked out this website as our internet time is rare and often dear.



It was another good sleeping night and the weather is warming up.

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