Wednesday, February 26, 2014

We have made it!

It has taken years but we have finally made it to the Ragged Islands.  Yesterday we dropped anchor in a small bay next to Double Breasted Cay.  There are perhaps a dozen other boats in the neighborhood.  Three sailboats are in this anchorage, one of which is Carina, a Manta 42 with Mark & Kathy on board.  I am not sure we could find a more remote location anywhere in this hemisphere……check it out on a map!

We have a little Internet service here at the anchorage, not enough for pictures but we will try to download some when we go a few miles further south towards Duncan town, the only settlement in the entire Jumentos/Ragged chain of islands and cays.  Population is perhaps 55 people.  We are less than 65 miles from Cuba, a mere day sail if we could only go…..  There are no McDonald's or Burger Kings here and one has to be 100% self sufficient to stay around.  Without our watermaker there is no way we could even come down here, let alone stay here for a couple of weeks.

It is absolutely beautiful here, desolate and crystal clear water.

Lat/lon…….

N 22.18.80
W 75.45.95

We are south of the Tropic of Cancer!!

Stand by for some more highlights when we can upload pictures!!

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