Exumas 2015 vacation begins!!

Our trip began with a sunrise departure from Marco Island to Key Largo.  The trip down and around (130 miles) was long, but beautiful.  The weather and water conditions were virtually perfect for the longest trek of our trip.  Our “flotilla” consisted of our boat leading, Aquaholic (Russell and Vicky’s boat), then the Boston Whaler (aka Bliksem) driven by Revil and Kim (good friends from South Africa).  

We arrived at the Ocean Reef marina about 4PM and enjoyed a fun filled evening of  “fireball”, chatting and dancing.

On Monday, we headed towards Bimini, our 1^st Bahamas stop, and had to turn back about 5 miles into the trip because of an issue with our stabilizer (new fins we had installed under the boat to limit the rocking/rolling of the boat while underway).  One of the fins ceased in a fully extended position which made our boat list hard to the port.  We limped back to another marina and Dan spent several hours on the phone with the technical support folks and fixed the issue.   Our ceased stabilizers was joined by the master bedroom A/C breaking, and the boat taking on water....good times!!

We will try again on Tuesday morning, as the weather looks good and calm.  We need to be a bit more mindful of the weather because of the Boston Whaler, as she is much more prone to the effects of the weather conditions.  But don’t worry, we have provided Revil and Kim rain coats for their Whaler responsibilities…lol.  As Russell/Vicky/Kids enjoy air conditioned driving conditions and Dan and I enjoy lounging about during our travels, Revil and Kim are braving the elements of the open ocean in the 27’ boat.