Grand Lucaya Yacht Club Tiki Bar
Turtle frolicking in the Atlantic ocean
The undeveloped Grand Lucayan Waterway
The Grand Lucayan Waterway is a man made channel built in the 70's about 250' wide that cuts through Grand Bahama island and runs from the Sea of Abaco to the Atlantic Ocean. The entire waterway as well as the side channels are lined with a cement retaining wall. Unfortunately some body's dream of development never materialized and it is largely undeveloped with only a few houses built along the waterway-some shacks and some mansions. We arrived after making our tenuous entrance from the Sea of Abaco about dark. Fortunately the cruising guides alerted us to a perfect anchorage off the waterway. Well protected from the wind. It is now Monday April 6th. No phone or Internet service. The next day we hailed a nearby fisherman who called a cab for us. Gail needed to go to the bank. In a story to long to tell, her Bankcard blew overboard. A test revealed that a bankcard doesn't float for long so taking no chances we were off to the bank to cancel it. We also found a Pizza Hut that had Internet service so we caught up on our banking and email and most importantly the weather.
Our plan was to stay here at anchor, wait for a good weather window and cross the big Pond back to the States. As we listen to the weather it looks like it will be a week or more for good crossing weather. The decision was mad to be more in touch with worldly things so we decided to move to Port Lucaya. To get there you exit the Grand Lucayan Waterway, traverse the Atlantic ocean a short ways and enter Lucaya which is not far from Freeport. Our destination is the Grand Lucaya Yacht Club which is elegant but economical due to an arrangement with the Royal Marsh Harbor Yacht Club. Unknowingly this would be our home until April 22nd
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