After a leisurely breakfast aboard EcoAdventurer, we sailed from MarshHarbor to Snake Cay. Snake Cay was just an accident as we were going to sail to the other side of the Sea of Abaco but it was too shallow over there and so we ended up stopping at Snake Cay after I read that you could do a kayak or dinghy tour through the small creeks just insde the Sea of Abaco.
When we got there, we realized that we didn’t have much gas for the dinghy to do the nature tour but we saw a couple of native Bahamians in a skiff going into the small harbor, which we were anchored just outside of. So, we jumped in the dinghy and motored toward them and the dock. They were just getting into a pickup truck when we called to them. One guy came back to us and he said he would take our gas can into town and fill it up with 2 gallons of gas. We gave him $10. He said it would be about ½ hour and that he was taking the other two guys home to town and he would be back because he lived nearby.
We waited for and hour and 15 minutes and were about ready to go back to the boat because the sand fleas or no-seeums as they call them were really biting now that it was dusk, when we heard the sound of a vehicle coming back down the road. Luckily it was him with our gas. He brought us our $2.00 change, which we gladly told him to keep and that was all we had to offer. He said he was glad we waited and that he was sorry it took him so long. Our faith in human nature returned.
There was a sunken boat of good size just inside the small harbor and as we waited for him on the shore, we saw the reflection of hundreds of good-size fish swimming in a bay of the wreck. Wow – if I had wanted to catch some fish, this would have been the place. But, the fish here are so pretty and colorful, I don’t have the heart to kill them. I’d rather eat soup and sandwiches. We spent the a very quiet night just off Snake Cay with another sailboat fairly near us – but they stayed by themselves as we did.
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