Clarence Town - Long Island

Mike: 12 June
Today's sail took us from Landrail Point on Crooked Island to Clarence Town on Long Island. Departing at about 8am and with a clear blue sky and 10 kts breeze, we were able to average 6kts through 2-3' following seas for the 38nm passage. Arriving in Clarence Town in mid afternoon, we set the pick in 6' of water over sand in calm water. No sooner had we finished anchoring when a large ray swam under out boat.

A short while later, the next boat over from us (actually, the only other boat in the bay), came over and offered us some hospitality on their boat. Their names were Steve and Wendy and they'd been living on their 42' center cockpit ketch rigged Robertson-(something) for the past six years. They had a playfull and excitable young dog named Coco who just couldn't get enough of Alison and a parrot called Azul that had a colurful vocabulary and kept us entertained. Steve and Wendy are on their way to the US coast (like us) but are fast tracking covering as much distance as possible each day (not like us). As the sun set over this pristine achorage, we bid our new friends farewell and safe travels and headed back to our boat to make supper which consisted of chicken on the barby and fixin's along with a bottle of wine. It's amazing how at 10pm, nobody's able to keep their eyelids open.