We have made it south at last.......George Town, Bahamas!

We pulled away from Marathon on April 1 with one goal.....make it to the Bahamas to watch the Family Regatta.  Well, here it is, April 26 and we are one day away from the start.  So......our goal has been met and now it's time to have a week of fun.  All the boats are in Elizabeth Harbor and the first start goes off at 0900 tomorrow.

But first lets recap the latest sail south from Wardrick Wells.........We had plenty of time to meander down the Exuma chain and we did a good job at sailing when we could and staying put when weather wasn't to our liking.  Speaking of weather not to our liking.....this is what Lobster Cay looked like the second afternoon we were there.  SW winds 40+ winds putting us on the lee shore. Lots of fun for 4 hours.

yes, it was breezy

Celest is ready too

One area we really enjoyed was the Lee Stocking/Barreterre region.  The water was very clear, the little settlement is a joy and the cracked conch at "Norman's Fishermen Inn" was the best we have ever had!  We had to back more than once.

Monument marking the channel from day of old

Tug & Barge Cays

Square Rock

Views of Barreterre

Hurricane damage lasts a long time

Town boat launch 

Tida Wave being towed to George Town

Barreterre waterfront

More views

One big sand bar

Can you count the number of blues!

sv Celest

Nati heading south with Celest

Once the wind turned back to the NE it was time to make our run down Exuma Sound and pull into George Town for the regatta.  The forecast was as predicted and we had a great sail all the way to our anchorage.  There are perhaps 150 boats in the harbor for the regatta.  There is plenty of room to find a spot to drop the hook and we have already seen a number of friends.  Paul & Kathryn on sv Cool Cat  came in yesterday so we should have plenty of fun.

King of the "Cuda's - now how did I make this mess?

First one caught

4th one caught!

We have more pictures of the regatta prep but we will do a follow-up of the regatta after all the races are complete on Saturday.

One of many ships carrying in the racing boats

Kidd Cove filling up with racers

The boats are getting unloaded 

Big & small

Regatta Park formerly the "Straw Market" before the fire

Elizabeth Harbor

Here we go.........