Merry Christmas and moving on again

Merry Christmas to all.

We had a very nice Christmas day yesterday. Karen was able to contact all our children on Iphone Face Time and we had a nice visit. Matt did the turkey and they all gathered at our house of which Matt is the proprietor for now and doing a great job of keeping it all together and taking care of our mail.

Here on Green Turtle cay we celebrated the Christmas dinner with a cruisers pot luck on Brendel's Dive Shop properties -- Thank You Brendel -- he also furnished 2 gallons of Goombay Smash -- an Island Rum punch.

We enjoyed the holiday with our Carolina cruising buddies -- Jim and Barb also Buck and Vickie who we have cruised with for 22 years, Craig and Dovie and Dell and Cory who have cruised with us for 14 years. A great time.

Today we all left the Green Turtle Club to finally live off the anchor for awhile and stop the money drain!! It was $67 a day to stay at the Green Turtle Club but it was worth it. Now we will bounce from anchorage to anchorage and just put in for food and water and maybe some fuel. I topped the fuel tank today with 40 gallons so I'm good for a long time here in the Abacos.

Today we went around the Whale Cay Passage to Great Guana Cay. The Whale is every Bahamas cruisers nightmare. It is impassable some days and you have to wait for a window. Today it was WIDE OPEN and easily navigated. Bubble and Skat came across with us and we are in the "Hub of the Abacos". Everyplace easily reached now.

WE will stay here for a few days then hopefully go back across the Whale to Green Turtle Cay for Junkanoo on New YEars Day.

We need to find some cheaper groceries right now. On Green Turtle Cay all provisions are three times what we pay in the states -- like a 12oz Log cabin Syrup for $8.95 or a cucumber for $3.77. Over here and at Treasure cay we pay twice as much. In Marsh Harbor it is 1.5 times as much.

Ohh the little things that count.

Tomorrow we will explore Great Guana and go to Nipper's, the ocean beach, the grocery store and stop at Milo's strand for fresh veggies and LOBSTER TAILS -- they call them cray fish in the Bahamas but they are LObsters with out the big claws. My mouth is watering already.