We are all here in West End, Grand Bahama Island. Blue Blaze and Far Point have arrived and all is well. The other sailboats have been wonderful...lots to talk about, happy hours and time to just shoot the ____....We are waiting for good weather to continue on...Looks like everyone will leave tomorrow morning: 5 sailboats and a Nordic Tug. We will travel with Far Point and Blue Blaze to our first anchorage...about 58 miles away (Great Sale Cay). Then onto Green Turtle Cay another 50 plus miles away. The grounds at the Marina/Resort are gorgeous. The current owner demolished all the old buildings and built new. The style is Bahamian expensive. The actual rooms go for 300-700 dollars a nite. They have a infinity pool, lounge chairs on the beach, pool table, fitness center....A lot of money was spent to create this place. The boats that come in here are HUGE...sport fishing boats and pleasure yachts. I took a pic of one...Lots of money. WE have been eating lobster with mustard sauce, lobster with rice, lobster tacos and lobster with pasta. At $5 a piece, it is a bargain. Each day a male bahamaian lobster diver comes and shows his lobsters and we would hate to refuse them. The lobsters have no claws but a huge tail. Great eatin'. Laura and I went to town on the resorts' beach bikes and visited the local liquor store in search of our favorite french table wine...Lamouthe Parrot, available only in the Bahamas. Upon leaving the liquor store I found my bike had a flat tire. We rode a short distance and a local said he could pump the tire back up...We were set to go again and 5 mintes later the flat reappeared...We started walking back to the resort when a resort SUV stopped to help us...Colby, like the cheese took good care of us and drove us back to the marina. The people here are really friendly... The skies here are just gorgeous. There is usually some billowy white clouds with a gorgeous blue sky background. See pics....
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