New stop! Weather was in our favor this year, allowing us to make a stop at Galliot Cay. Even though it's right by a cut, there is a little anchorage here that is mostly out of the current. We shared this cute spot with one other boat for the night and it was lovely!
We decided the water was a little too cool for the crew's snorkeling comfort, so instead we took a nice dinghy ride around the cays at that cut, hiked up the hill on Galliot Cay (it's uninhabited), and ran out to the Ribbon Sandbar at low tide. It was a really sweet spot with a very nice beach on Galliot Cay!
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| Dinghy ride around the anchorage. |
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| Lots of fun at the beautiful Ribbon Sandbar! |
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| Hiking around Galliot Cay and a nice sunset from the boat! |
This stop also gave us a chance to really monitor the tides. There aren't a bunch of tide stations so you have to use a blend of offset from Nassau and the next nearest tide station. This gets important for two reasons here...1--going through a cut when the wind and tide are running in opposite directions leads to a dangerous "rage" of steep, short-period waves, and 2--we have a deep draft for parts of the Bahamas and sometimes need high tide to get past certain points. We decided to try to go "bankside" from Galliot to Rudder Cut, using a full-moon tide to get us past skinny points on Musha Cay, but as we passed the inlet it looked ok out in the sound (wind and tide were both coming onto the bank) so we exited for the 4nm run. It was lumpy with 3-5' seas at 4sec period, but we had plenty of water under the keel! Maybe next time, Musha...maybe next time.
~Jo, 1st Mate
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