Cinco de Mayo! OLE!!

Last Sunday was the 5th of May and of course the Bahamas had to celebrate.  So.....off to Snappa's we went for the little party.  It proved to be pretty good until they ran out of most everything for a Latin party......

• no conch
• no nachos
• no quesadillas
• maybe no tequila!!??
• and then quit playing Latin music 

Instead we went back to Nati, turned on some Olga Tanon and made up some "Cinco de Mayo pizza" along with a couple of margaritas from Vinny's stash of liquor.  We were however able to keep the fancy necklaces the restaurant had.  Don't we look like real party animals?  Maybe gold chains will be my new look!

Cheers!

Today may be the official start of the trip north.  Up at sunrise with the hope the forecast was going to treat us well.......OK, maybe not great but we did make it past the "Whale".  Instead of going out and around Whale Cay we followed two other cats through "Don't Rock" channel.  High tide was around 0700 and we made it through the shallow channel with nothing less than 6 feet of water.  It saved us a ton of time and also we didn't have to slog across the sloppy seas going around the Cay.  

Don't Rock

Unfortunately the winds picked up to 14-16kts right from the direction we want to go so instead of fighting them all day we elected to go into White Sound at Green Turtle Cay and anchor there for the night.  The winds are supposed to be SSW tomorrow so if, and that is a big "IF" the weather guessers are right we should have a nice ride.....cross your fingers for us!

The stop has enabled us to connect to the Internet, perhaps for the last time in the Bahamas.  At least we are able to update the blog.  If we can make it to Grand Cay they may have coverage but we aren't sure.  From there it's NW to the states.