Yesterday Cindy and I got a good morning hike in on North Bimini. Walked through Alicetown, Baileytown and one more town. All in all it was only 3-4 miles but thelowing island is only 7 miles long so we saw a piece of it. We left the marina mid morning, but it turned out to be a pretty good stop. We filled up with water again, to keep things topped off and even with no refills, we should be good for 3 weeks. Weather is great for playing but not so good for making more miles right now. Wind is blowing pretty big out of the east at 20 or so and forecast is for 30 mph for the next couple of days with 3-4 foot waves on the Great Bahama Bank which we have to cross, so we found a bay on Cat Key 15 miles south of Bimini to hole up until weather allows further traveling. It is so named because it is shaped like a catamaran. Today we got a good snorkel in. hiked up the beach a mile and swam back. Saw a couple of lobster and fish and the turtles surrounded the boat this afternoon. This is a private island, Nixon stayed here at one time. Lots of private homes, but nothing really extravagant that I can see from the beach. We are anchored only a hundred yards from the beach in 8-10 feet of water. We dove on the anchor. It's interesting to see how it sets. This afternoon I changed the generator oil at 99 hours since last change. We will hole up here or nearby until the wind lays down a bit.
Engine Hours 4856.3
Genset Hours 5475.0

A mountain of conch shells at the Stuart Conch Salad Bar

Close up of the conch pile. It looked like a breakwater it was so big

Stuart Conch Salad Stand

One of the local cemeteries

Amazing water 

Local clinic. Essentia could learn some simplicity from them.