We are anchored in Marsh Harbour. Came in here mid afternoon yesterday, went ashore and explored the town. Unfortunately it was Sunday and most things were closed, but the grocery store was open and it was a "regular" grocery store with great selection on most things and priced pretty well for the Bahamas. Marsh Harbour is the "charter capital" of the Bahamas. There was a time when we had considered coming here and chartering a boat, but went to the Virgin Islands instead. Now we are here with our own boat, and it is a thrill. We are going to hang around this morning and get some more groceries and explore a bit, then move up the island chain to the northwest a few miles and try and find a place with decent internet to work tomorrow. This work thing is a pain trying to find good internet. Yesterday morning we left our anchorage and only went a couple of miles to a series of mooring balls for dive/snorkel sites. We snorkeled a couple of them and it was the most incredible snorkeling I have ever experienced. The Elkhorn coral was absolutely spectacular. Loads of fish, lobster, and all was 10 feet or less. But, the second site was the crown jewel. As we were swimming back to the dinghy on the mooring ball, looking down in 15 feet of gin clear water were 3 spotted eagle rays wafting along. Their wing span was 8 feet or more and their tails were even longer. The most spectacular site I have ever seen diving or snorkeling. Hard to say "holy shit" through a snorkel, but we both did!

These are not our pictures, we don't have the underwater camera with us but this is exactly what we saw.  Their wing span was enormous, 8 feet plus

Lighthouse building enroute to Marsh Harbour

Local clinics

The view from our happy hour location yesterday. Our boat is dead center in the image. We had local  tuna (cooked rare) and it was delicicious.