Turning north
At Staniel Cay our good friend Sharon joins us. She'll be staying until we're back in the US. No worries about pickup and dropoff schedules! After a few days buddy boating with S/V Spitfire from Big Majors to Black Point to Little Farmers Cay, we make the big decision that we're tired of fighting into the southeast wind along an island chain that stretches to the southeast. We're enticed to sail another difficult day SE to the popular harbor at Georgetown, but we'll leave it for some other year. Sailing downwind is sooo much easier. We later hear from Spitfire that they had a very rough two days to Georgetown. Glad we didn't. Back to Black Point, and we hang out with some local women while they weave long strips from local palm into material to be sold to tourists on the resorts. There's not much economic opportunity on these small outer islands, and plaiting can be done anywhere. Most young people move to Nassau or Freeport to find work. Each day we see ...