Its never easy to keep to a schedule when boating, for whatever reason everything is twice as hard and takes an extra few hours. I have a new level of respect for airlines, moving thousands of people around everyday without losing anyone (people that is not luggage). So of course our departure time of 11 AM quickly turned into 3PM. Just in time to make the 2.5 hour trip to our first stop the island of Bimini before we loose the sun light. As the deep blue ocean turned into a clear light turquoise I knew we were getting close. We quickly went from 500 feet of water down to 5 feet as we approached the white sand beach coast. Once docked at the 15 slip marina we got our first lesson in bahamas math. 1 dollar per foot per night is very inexpensive for dockage until you have the .25 cents per gallon for water and something like 4 dollars for enough electricity to charge an iPhone.

Before nightfall I began my first project of the trip, install a pedestal on the swim platform for the grill. 9PM mission complete, in just enough time to make it over to the big game marina to order a local conch salad and some blackened fish of the day. Caught less than a 5 minute boat ride off shore, and of course a night in the bahamas wouldn’t be complete without trying the pride of the bahamas local beer called kalik. Named after a cow bell style musical instrument played in the yearly junkanoo new years eve celebration.