It's bittersweet:

It's over: Agave has a new owner.  We wish him fair winds!

For us the countdown begins: when Kehan is done with high school in 2023, we can go back cruising ... the search for the next boat is on...

The Way Back to Terra Firma

From the Abacos, Bahamas, we made our way back to the mainland via Brunswick, Georgia, Charleston, SC, Beaufort, NC, and then straight to Solomons, MD.  Cape Hatteras (the Graveyard of the Atlantic) did not pose any problem. We reached on Friday August 1, 2014 welcomed by our friends the Purrings.

Brunswick, Georgia.

In Beaufort, North Carolina

 

A very interesting and beautiful cemetery.  To learn more: http://historicbeaufort.com/burygnd1.htm

Charateristic of the month of July, the weather was unsettled, with too little wind or too much, squally, and stormy with lots of lightning.  A sign that it was high time to head back to terra firma.

All the yellow patches on the radar screen are storms around us

Approach of the Georgia coastline - storm brewing at 2pm

Photo taken by Kim waiting for us on the dock in Solomons, MD

 It is the end of our adventure - definitely one of a kind for us.  We all got transformed by it, and all its effects are still to be seen and felt as life unfolds.  

Animals on or around Agave

Animals in, on, or around Agave in so specific order...

Cooking onboard

The Abacos

Hope Town's Lighthouse

This lighthouse is one of only 3 remaining that are hand wound by the keepers every 2 hours during the night, using a vapor burner and unique Fresnel "bull's eyes" lenses that concentrate the light which is then visible up to 15 miles away.

Fresnel lens

Dinner with Jeff and Bev from s/v Mer Soleil onboard Agave

Spanish Wells once again!

Lunch at the Budda Bar! Check out the bus!

Summer storms in Spanish Wells, the center of lobster fishing in the Bahamas.

Northern Exumas and Eleuthera

Trying to get some lunch

Dinghying is a coveted responsibility by both boys

Summer is here with plenty of thunderstorms

Visits of the Cape Eleuthera Institute (http://www.ceibahamas.org) and the Island School (http://www.islandschool.org) which partner together.  Well worth having a look.

Dinner with Lisa and Tony from s/v Inspiration in Rock Sound, Eleuthera.

Yellowtail snapper

Super NARROW  passage to and from Hatchet Bay (Alice Town)...

Glass Bottom

Sailing in the Exumas and Eleuthera is about navigating narrow cuts whose crossings have to be timed with fair seas, tides (preferably high) and current (ebb and flow and preferably slack).

Strong current at a appropriately named Current Cut

Some more fish: a nice 4.25 lb yellow jack - cooked in a coconut curry cream... yum