Things have been crazy here - as soon as we arrived back in Colorado we plunged into work on our partly-remodeled house - but I wanted to get more pictures out on the website before you all got bored and wandered away! These are all pictures from April.
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Samson Cay is a popular spot for fancy megayachts. The crew moves the boat there and the owners arrive by floatplane |
Birds hanging out on a dock |
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Going upwind on a windy day - our sails are reefed down tiny! |
Strong current in Big Rock Cut near Staniel Cay shows as swirls on the water |
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Yachties and locals outside Exuma Market in George Town |
A vendor talks with schoolkids in George Town |
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A balloon fish - they inflate and their spines stick out when they are frightened |
A big school of small bar jacks |
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A small school of big barracudas |
Bahamian fishermen clean conch near a wreck off Flamingo Cay, Jumentos |
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Inscription we found scratched in a limestone cliff on Flamingo Cay. It says 1866 J.M. |
Windom at anchor at Flamingo Cay |
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Britt in a (dry) well on Flamingo Cay |
Ruin of building at Flamingo Cay |
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Inland water holes at Flamingo Cay |
This water hole was very beautiful |
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The water holes are filled with tiny red shrimp |
Lots of conched-out conch shells |
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A very large school of grunts |
School of horse-eye jacks |
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Pretty coral garden with a blue tang and a few grunts |
An underwater tunnel |
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Britt repairs a tear in our jib |
A bird in a nest tucked into a solution pocket in the limestone of Buena Vista Cay. (We didn't get very close or use flash because we didn't want to disturb her. It's a zoom shot.) |
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Anchorage at Raccoon Cay. As usual, Windom's the only boat... |
Little birds seemed to love the beach on Johnson Cay. |
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Plastic trash items washed up on a windward beach... |
...make a colorful trash mosaic |
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Christmas tree worms on coral - they're a kind of tube worm which retracts into its hole when disturbed. |
A nice stand of finger coral |
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Red hind (also called strawberry grouper) |
Britt fishing |
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Ilana fishing - whoa, we got something big! |
...and something got it! |