We are now anchored off Big Majors Spot just around the corner from Staniel Cay. Sunday night was spent at the docks at Staniel Cay Yacht Club (see photos below) so we could get our "NFL fix" watching the conference championships. The bar is great there and was pretty packed with folks watching football and enjoying their amazing, free happy hour buffet. We were, of course, outfitted in our Steelers jerzies and had our terrible towels. And we were *very* happy with the outcome of the game!! HERE WE GO, STEELERS!!!! Now we just have to figure out where to watch the Super Bowl.
Monday, we motored over to our present position just off Big Majors -- the home of the "swimming pigs". They're huge pigs who live on the island and love the sound of dinghy motors 'cause that means they're about to be fed! They'll swim out to your dinghy for the food you bring them (we brought apples and old bread) and we were forewarned that they can be pretty aggressive if you don't feed them fast enough. They have huge, long snouts that stay above the water while they're swimming and they have dark spots on their backs. See the photos below.
Yesterday and today we snorkeled in Thunderball Cave, the site of filming for the 1964 James Bond movie "Thunderball". You snorkel in under these overhangs of rock and then you come into this amazing grotto with holes in the top for sunlight. The fish there are teeming around and we saw alot of new varieties. We were there with our friends, Tony & Tess from Endurance and several other dinghies of friends. Today, we went over again at slack low tide and saw the wonderful coral reefs on the other side of the grotto. Beautiful coral heads and more interesting fish. We plan to go back tomorrow with Hank & Ellen from La Belle Helene' since it's a great thing to do more than once.
The weather is pretty warm the past few days, in the high 70's or low 80's with a fair amount of wind today. I actually broke down and hand-washed some of our clothes today since there's no laundry here at Staniel Cay, we're getting kinda desperate for clean clothes *and* there's such great wind today for drying clothes on the lifelines.
The famous pigs enjoying food thrown onto their beach by another boat.
Here they come, swimming out to our boat for even more food.
Sunday night at Staniel Cay Yacht Club's bar. We're psyched!!
Carl, the bartender (left) and one of the dockhands on the right, unloading more Kalik beer for the night.
Another view inside the bar. Very neat ambience there and nice folks.
We'll post more pictures when we update the blog again....probably tomorrow. Until then, stay warm and healthy!
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