George Town at last

Entrance to dinghy dock

Saturday, February 8th, we pulled up anchor at 0700, exited the Farmers Cay Cut, and turned the boat south. In 2008, I bought my first sailboat, a 1982, 34 foot Irwin. Besides the joy of sailing, I think I purchased the boat because of my innate wanderlust. I've always enjoyed traveling to distant destinations whether in a camper, a motorhome, or even on a motorcycle. Reading numerous cruising blogs, made me realize that it is a real thing. One particular blog was about a young couple on a PDQ catamaran who spent winters in George Town. I followed the Tender Vittles blog, with Tom and Amy until it was no longer published. So for the last 12 years I have been envisioning pulling into Elizabeth Harbour between George Town and Stocking Island.

30 yr old lure

Being in deep waters for the 40 mile journey in the Exuma Sound, I deployed two fish wackers. I even pulled out my antique feathered, lead headed jig. No luck. However, I did overhear a discussion on the VHF in which a boat scored two mahi mahi's using a cedar plug. A cedar plug is now on the list of must-haves.

After dragging 40 miles

We pulled into Elizabeth Harbour, between Stocking Island and George Town, around 1400. We dropped the anchor off Monument Beach at Stocking Island in line with probably a couple hundred other boats.  After all was set we launched the dinghy and headed south, about 1.5 miles, toward the dinghy dock at George Town. We ate conch salad at Sonia's, visited the market, then made our way to Doe Boi's. Doe Boi is the owner of an electronics store so I inquired about the possibility of him fixing my laptop. He asked me to bring it in Monday to take a look at it. It turns out Doe Boi's is also a courier store so I ordered another solar panel from Amazon to be delivered to him. We filled a couple jerry cans with water at the dinghy dock and made the trip back to Pura Vida.

We are not sure what we are going to do on Sunday, perhaps just take it all in and make a list of things to do in the upcoming weeks. George Town was our destination and will be our home base for the next few weeks.

Bucket list... George Town ✔.

We look forward to visits from Bryce, Veronica, Blake & Chris.

Our George Town net intro: