Back at Manjack Cay

We left Manjack Cay Friday morning to venture out on the reef to find the two mooring balls set up for diving. The winds were just a breeze and the waves were nonexistent, the best day for diving so far. After picking our way though the coral heads there was not a ball in sight, so we dropped the anchor on a sand patch about 30 feet deep. We then donned our dive gear and went off the swim platform. The reef was teaming with sea life and beautiful color. It had been several years since we last dove and it felt good to partake of it once again. When we surfaced and rinsed the salt off ourselves and our gear we brought up the hook and worked our way across the sound to Coopers Town.

Coopers Town is truly a Bohemian town, non of the glitz of the more populated tourist resorts. It was refreshing and pleasant to greet the towns people as we walked the sidewalk and explored the town. The children were very polite and friendly as were the adults.

We ate dinner out Friday and lunch out Saturday. They were both good meals and very inexpensive.

We decided to leave Coopers Town on Sunday because of the coming front and the change in the wind direction. We also didn't get much sleep on Friday and Saturday night. As you can see from the sunset picture we were anchored not far off from the pier for the Conch Crawl Bar. It was truly just a bar and very noisy til all hours of the morning.















After a trip to shore to get rid of the trash we went across to Powell Cay in hopes of getting protection from the wind. It didn't happen but we stayed on though Monday in hopes of it calming down so we could go to shore and do some lobstering. Never happened. As you can see from the picture it was even to rough for the big boys, they joined us at anchor for the day and night.
















This was the sky at sunset last night. We weren't sure if we would get some rain but it didn't happen. This morning after breakfast we lifted the anchor and moved back to Manjack Cay for some protection. We are hoping to go conch hunting tomorrow morning. For now we are just happy to be out of the constant beating from the wind and waves.