Thanks for all your work and referral to this site! Look forward to trying it out. Going to go check out this site now. Seems like a good place to land after the continued fall of the other site...
Well Gringo, I bounced with ya and everyone else. I joined this am and glad to be here. If THT is gonna be like that EFM! Good to see you picked right up here. Merry Christmas to all!
Glad you guys decided to come check it out. I Already found some pretty good lesbian jokes on here....it's going to take a little while to figure out where things are, but looks like a site for boating and fishing people.
Here are some more images from the TCI, for the winter-bound folks north of us:
Heres a Tropic Bird. They nest in the cliffs right above the beach. I guess the first sounds they hear in life is the surf breaking right below the nest. Not a bad way to start.
'nuther crowded beach, boats everywhere...noisy......trash, jet skis, covered with beach blankets and drunks playing frisbee......Big parking lot full of cars and Winnebagos from Canada.....not.
This, surprisingly enough, is an image of two piles of rocks. By people who like to pile rocks. I don't know why they piled rocks, but can't think of any good reasons not to.
Well, I knew I should have brought one of the cast nets with me.
Some more photos of the old freighter sitting south of Leeward:
Do you reckon the anchor helped? It drew 9 ft. of water, and its sitting in 5 ft. over two miles out on the banks..I can just hear that last conversation.
Well, Skipper, we're stuck but good. What do you want to do now?
"Let's drop the hook so we don't float away. Shut down the mains. I'll radio the boss...I am sure he will understand..."
"Hello, Boss? Well, the good news is....uh....lemmee get back to you on that..."
This is why I use wire leaders these days. Dadgummed bait thief.
thank you thank you...Mr & Mrs Gringo.....no doubt that T&C is absolutely beautiful.....and your photos capture so much....hell you should be the director of tourism with that presentation.....many friends over the years have told me that the T&C is an unspoiled pristine paradise....matter of fact...good friends who owned a 60 Hatteras named "Traci Lyn" made it their home away from home and had nothing but the best to say about the Paradise you live in.......Again.......welcome and thanks for sharing you world in the Southern Bahamian Chain with us here @ SFC
Conch.....like Shrimp in the movie Forest Gump......any way ya fix em...delicous!!!.....
Thanks for all the great feedback. We hope to be back on our own boat taking new photos any day now, I still have some wiring issues to work out after prying it loose from the local boatyard. They do good glass work, that's for sure. Wiring? Well...they do good glass work...
In the meantime I am picking some stuff out of our blog, assuming many of y'all have not seen it. For those who have, I'll change the captions around or something
A few months back we ran the boat over to meet the owner of the Bottle Creek Lodge, on North Caicos. Its a bit of a white knuckle run if you dont know the waters, and I dont. 46 miles round trip of mostly shallow water over coral and rock outcroppings, some of them within a foot of the surface. Then the entrance to Bottle Creek, which isn't much wider than a small boat, and maybe a foot deep at low tide. We had clunked the skeg once on coral, already, then dug up some sand getting into the inlet. Looking back at the Yammie, I noticed that it was no longer 'whizzing'. So I went to idle, and looked for a place to anchor while I checked it out. Only way to get out of the ebb current was to essentially beach it. I guess there are worse places to be stranded while you work on your outboard;
(by the way, that shallow, sandy area directly on the other side of the boat to the right of the bow IS the entrance to Bottle Creek.)
Good thing for me I have an automated anchor handling system on board:
(I was going to write "anchor wench" but thought about it for a second..)
While I was educating myself on the cooling system on the new outboard, La Gringa Suprema wandered off down the beach with the camera. She found this jellyfish she liked:
Once I had the motor back together, we cruised up Bottle Creek. Saw some cruise ship lifeboats high and dry. Bet they have some stories to tell:
and this strange little thang. I have since been informed that it is a "jammie canoe", after a Jamaican design. I had never seen one before this.
They dont seem to mind hauling their boats right up on the rocks here. Its one of the more remote areas of the inhabited islands here. The difficulty of getting into Bottle Creek is a big part of it.
We are planning a trip back. Jay, the expat owner of the Bottle Creek Lodge, invited us to come try bonefishing. It's a great spot, especially if you want to get away from the mob on Provo. They have a great bar, and a nice tv and sat system.
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just wanted to stop by and say thanks again to Gringo, you ARE the man 
Paradise Found.....
