We sailed south about 20 miles from Highborne to Warderick Wells, which is the headquarters for the Exumas Land and Sea Park. The Park was established in 1958, the first of its kind. It is a no take zone so fishing, conching, shelling etc are out. The park is absolutely beautiful with great snorkeling, sand beaches, hiking, kayaking and just scenery to wear the eyes out. Jake has been working hard on his snorkeling and is progressing much faster than we expected, given his aversion to getting his face wet. He is now floating with his mask in and breathing through the snorkel. He gets very excited about the fish he sees so he comes up talking and sucks in water, then begins to sputter. He is very proud though of his new skill and goes about it whenever he can. He took anchor watch of our dinghy anchor at the beach yesterday, in all of 6 inches of water, he floated there making sure the anchor stayed put for about 15 minutes.
We have had a fair amount of wind, which is good (keeps the batteries charged via the wind generator) but also keeps us a little pinned down. Though admittedly we would not have moved anyway. There are no services (groceries, stores, laundry or even garbage collection) in the park. So we are very much "cruising" and loving it.
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