How delightful to be peacefully swinging at anchor! It's surprisingly cool here. We're only 22 degrees above the equator, so you'd think it would be hot, but the wind keeps it cool. It's a lot cooler than Florida.
We paddled ashore and walked along the beach. Had the whole place to ourselves. This part of the island is completely deserted. The sand is clean and white. There were no footprints in it until we came along. We walked up and down the beach and then got back in our Royaks and paddled towards Abraham Bay, where the settlement is.
At Start Point, we were surprised to find the ruins of an old fuel unloading facility. There was still a fairly substantial wharf, some small buildings, and a number of tanks and pipes. Someone invested a lot of money in it, and now it's going to rack and ruin.
We had planned on paddling to Abraham Bay to check out the entrance, but it was farther than we had thought. We'd been paddling against the wind for quite a while and we were hungry, so we turned around and blew back to the boat.
We had been the only boat here when we arrived, but a sloop came in this morning and another sloop in the afternoon. They anchored a few hundred yards from us. A ketch almost came in in the evening, but they changed their minds and took off. A little later, one of the sloops left, so we nearly had the place to ourselves again.
In case you're wondering where Mayaguana Island is, it's the easternmost of the Bahamas. We're already at the far end of the Bahama chain, and we did it in less than a week! More than 500 miles! It's hard to believe. Now we're only 200 miles north of the Dominican Republic, our next destination. We got out the charts this evening and figured out the best way to go.
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