Where are Robyn & John? - Chapter 1

Hello Fam, I am sorry that it has taken us this long to let you know what we have been up to but.., there is not a lot of opportunity to connect with cyber space when you are in the islands. We will be working on improving our communication capabilities as soon as we get to Panama. We have to buy some equipment to make communications easier.
Well we have been on a whirl-wind tour of the Bahamas ever since we left Miami February 21. We went straight to Bimini and spent a few days there eating lobster and conch fresh off the boat. Then we sailed east and visited a couple of the Berry Islands before heading south toward New Providence Island and the town of Nassau. We had to get there because we had the Vails coming in to visit us for a week March 18-25. We stayed close to New Providence and Nassau for the week before they came and got ready for guests on board. We had a great time with Ron, Nancy and Taylor although the weather did not cooperate with us and we only got to go to one bay with them. Once the Vails went home we had a little lingering weather and we had to stay another week. Nassau is fun but, it is also crowded with cruise ships and we were happy to finally provision the boat with food, fuel and water and get the heck out of Dodge. From Nassau we went to a small island only 10 miles away with the most spectacular snorkeling I have ever done. The water all over the Bahamas is crystal clear and this reef off Rose Island was amazing! Our next destination was to Eluthera Island where we spent Easter weekend sort of hiding out from some more weather which came our way. We never went ashore but, made our way South to the jump off point to go West to the Exumas.
This is were we find our intrepid travelers now. We are making our way south through the Exuma Islands chain, day sailing to the next beautiful island with more reefs and cave to explore on each one. Today we arrived on Great Exuma Island and the town of Georgetown. We will be here a week. John wants to spend his Birthday weekend here to watch a local boat sailing ragatta that is held the last weekend of April every year. He hopes to get on one of the boats to race. It is a race for the traditional Bahamian working sloops and what we understand is that they need big guys for the upwind part of the race and then they throw them off the boat for the downwind leg. I guess I will have to go retrieve John (if he is good to me the few days before that) Just kidding, John is always good to me :-) After that we will be off to the Turks and Caicos for the next adventure. Hopefully we will be there by my birthday. The plan is for Chris to join us there for a few weeks to help us make the big crossing to the ABC Islands off the Venezuela Coast. I am including a few links until I can get actual pictures up for you guys. We love you all and if you don't here from us often remember no news is good news at this point.
BTW, just in case you were wondering (mom) we love i-tunes gift certificates and they make a great B'Day present. We play a lot of music while sailing :-)
Love, Ro


Bahamas Link

ABC Islands - Lesser
Antilles

Turks and Caicos