We left Chub Cay at 0440 to head for Rose Island. I hate not having my time to wake up slowly
and gently with a great cup of coffee in the morning. But when we make relatively long passages we
like to make sure we will be there before sunset, this allows for any problems
along the way. So I suck it up and put on
my big girl pants even though I want to stamp my feet and say, ‘No Go’. It was certainly worth it as we sailed slowly
into the lee side of Rose Island just a few miles northeast of Nassau. There were several shallow reefs with a
narrow passage into the anchorage which took visual piloting reporting (AKA
VPR) but we entered without incident and anchored in about 7 feet of
water.
Nassau in the distance from our anchorage. That is Atlantis on the far right.
View of the beach from our cockpit
The reefs surrounding our anchorage offered great
opportunities for snorkeling of which we took advantage. The beauty of the reefs was breathtaking and
I realized that the pictures and videos I had seen had in no way enhanced or
exaggerated the beauty, colors and variety of fish that I was seeing. There were purplish, bluish sea fans, brain
coral, colorful tubelike sponges and many I could not name. I saw Foureye Butterflyfish (with the big eye
on their body), blue tangs (Dory fish), Banded Butterflyfish, and I believe I
saw some snapper.
Although these pictures are taken from Google Images it was exactly what I saw.
Foureyed Butterfyl Fish
Blue tang
Sea Fan
Those were just the
fish I could name. The marine life I saw
was simply overwhelmingly awesome.
We even had sundowners over a campfire on the beach one night.
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