Here are the latest pictures from the past week. We're still in Powell -- the good weather and better fishing conspired to keep us put for tonight. Just after posting the last blog entry, Ben and I headed out to get a few fresh conch for dinner. After picking up our conch, we ran across a small mud on a flat while heading home. (A "mud" is a muddy spot created by fish, usually bonefish, which are grubbing for food on a sandy bottom). Thirty minutes later we had landed a bunch of bonefish -- including Ben's first fly rod bonefish!!!, and a fiesty 10+ pounder -- lost many more, and hooked and broke off a very big permit. A huge Eagle Ray and beefy bull shark passed by during the action. We finished the day with a fried snapper and conch salad, followed by an amazing sunset.
Conflicting current and wind create a jumble of boats in White Sound on Turtle Cay. (Cookie Monster, Zusammen in the foreground).
A big funnel cloud begins to drop down right behind Chere in White Sound. A waterspout flipped a smaller boat in Black Sound the same morning, just a mile south of us.
Ben (Dharma), Nat and Tyler (Zusammen) chill on Zusammen at the Bluff House before heading back to Powell. With John's back out, the three boys pitched in as crew for the day.
Decision time. After a long night, which included a slumber party on Chere, Chris (Dharma) and I weigh the pros and cons of bugging out to Florida that morning while tired kids look on. Zusammen is in the background. Dharma, Zusammen, Makana and Cookie Monster ended up going, and we stayed.
Dharma heading to Ft. Pierce. Very sad to see them go, but we'll catch up to them soon enough!
Zusammen laying tracks right behind Dharma. Next stop, the good ole' USA.
Happiness is . . . . In this case, it's foot steering in a good Bahama breeze.
A good day's take off Powell Cay; coconuts and Mutton Snapper. Now that's a good looking tender!
Osprey trolling for snapper under sail off of Alan's Cay.
Operation rope swing in action.
Win about to let go!
Was it fun? His face says it all.
Ben ups the ante by climbing on the boom.
Nat getting out there while Kaeo looks on.
Dad checking out the rig. I know I put this thing together, but will it hold me?
Pretending I'm 16 again . . . .
Nat having another great day in the Bahamas.
Look closely and you'll see a big funnel cloud just above Osprey's solar panels.
Look even more closely and you'll see a waterspout in between Osprey's staysails.
Nat surfing along the beach at Powell.
More of the same.
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