Author: Bryce
Green Turtle Cay, White Sound

Crossing the Gulf stream was not a pleasent experience. It was about an 8 hour trip with about 4 foot waves, I think it was better than the last time we did it but still pretty bad. I mostly sat around in the forward cabin and watched stuff bounce around inside the boat. My bed got wet because the door on the anchor locker came open and some of the wet anchor chain came out onto my bunk. But Simon's stayed bone dry.

We finally got to West End on Grand Bahama to a nice marina with a great pool and a snorkling trail just off of their beach. It was one of the best snorkeling trails I have ever been to. I saw tons of coral and huge fish including a moray eel.

Another native species to the Bahamas is a curly tailed lizard. They get up to about 10 inches long and can really bite your finger if you mess with them. We saw about 3 at the marina, they look like little dinasaurs, to whom they are related.

The next day was Easter Sunday. The easter bunny hid eggs on our boat and we had an egg hunt but Simon found most of them because he woke up before me. After that we headed out to Great Sale.

Monday we went from Great Sale to Allen's Pensacola Cay. We took our dinghy to find a trail to the other side to a signing tree. A signing tree is a tree where all the boaters who have been there attach signs with their boat names on them.

But when we pulled in the dinghy we saw that the trailhead was on fire. There were a lot flames. Our buddy boat Fred and two people we didn't know came over and helped us put out the fire. We used buckets we found on the beach to haul water up to pour on the fire. It seemed like we made hundreds of trips. We must have poured five hundred gallons of water on the fire before it went out. We also used wet sand.

After that we hiked to signing tree. The signs are mostly made from trash wood that has washed up on the beach, but some people use other things string, cans, bouys, and bottles.

The next day we woke up and dinghyed over to a hidden beach. It was our first slice of paradise. The water was like a swimming pool, with thousands of different shades of light blue and green. There were some great swimming holes we named them Bob, Bo, Ob, and Pig Sty. Pig Sty had a quicksand bottom.

Tuesday we motored to Green Turtle Cay. On the way I caught a 30 inch Barracuda on a dolphin delight lure. He was really strong and I had to fight him for a long time.

When we arrived at Green Turtle we went swimming and found a whole bunch of shortcuts through the marina.

That night we listened to the Gully Roosters live concert. They were really good.