Georgetown, Great Exuma Island New Years Eve
We again had a day of motoring with just a light headwind. We went out through a nearby cut to the ocean side which gave a straight shot to Georgetown on Great Exuma Island. We were amongst 4 or 5 boats also heading to Georgetown. It's a popular place. There are a lot of anchored sailboats and a smaller number of power yachts about the area. Walter and I took the dinghy to town and got rid of garbage for the first time since Florida and filled the 3 gasoline jugs. Tomorrow we will all go in and actually eat out somewhere and find wifi. I'm not sure if it will be tomorrow but before setting out again we will buy some more groceries and fill the 3 six gallon jugs of diesel fuel.
To enter and cruise in the Bahamas you must buy a $300 cruising permit. This also allows you to catch fish. Walter has a big salt water fishing rod and reel and our second time trolling we caught a nice Dolphin today. Not the mammal kind but the fish kind.. also called Mahi Mahi. They are really colorful. It was sad to watch it die but we ate it for dinner tonight and it was tasty. There was no good place to fillet it so we did it on a way too small cutting board on deck and flushed and scrubbed the deck after filleting it. It might have weighed about 5 pounds? Since I used to fresh water fish I was the exert on board but I know nothing about salt water fishing. It was the first fish I had filleted for perhaps 25 years?
Once we continue from here through the Turks and Caicos and beyond we will have longer distances. Some that can be made in a day but often overnighters or more might be required. I doubt we will be doing any staying up to midnight tomorrow but who knows? I imagine we will be back on the boat before dark.
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To enter and cruise in the Bahamas you must buy a $300 cruising permit. This also allows you to catch fish. Walter has a big salt water fishing rod and reel and our second time trolling we caught a nice Dolphin today. Not the mammal kind but the fish kind.. also called Mahi Mahi. They are really colorful. It was sad to watch it die but we ate it for dinner tonight and it was tasty. There was no good place to fillet it so we did it on a way too small cutting board on deck and flushed and scrubbed the deck after filleting it. It might have weighed about 5 pounds? Since I used to fresh water fish I was the exert on board but I know nothing about salt water fishing. It was the first fish I had filleted for perhaps 25 years?
Once we continue from here through the Turks and Caicos and beyond we will have longer distances. Some that can be made in a day but often overnighters or more might be required. I doubt we will be doing any staying up to midnight tomorrow but who knows? I imagine we will be back on the boat before dark.
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