Bahamas - Ragged Islands, Little Ragged Island, Diving and Lobster

Another sunset, this one spectacular….

The sun pooling into the ocean

 Not a cloud in sight on the horizon, so a good chance of a green flash

It was agreed by all the cruisers ashore that there was a green ‘button’, but no proper flash

Next day Bob on SV Discovery was up his mast and took this wonderful photo of Meshugga and Sojourn

Jenny is out of cigarettes, and Ty Wallace from Duncan Town is the local supplier, and kindly delivered a couple of cartons to the airstrip…. Nicholas took Jenny to Ragged Island airstrip so she could get her fix.

Maxine and Ty kindly gifted us with 2 kg of superb Grouper. Here I’m prepping to make Pickled Fish

Being such a calm windless day, we went snorkeling. I snorkeled for a while and then fished from the dinghy whilst Nicholas still snorkeled.

I caught my first Trigger Fish, it gave me quite a fight.

Nicholas was successful with one large lobster and later on a slightly smaller one

Back on Meshugga, the large lobster only just fitted into my kitchen sink

I descaled the fish on the back step, and unfortunately Jenny flushed the scales into the water before I’d bleached the scales to remove the smell. No sooner than this was done we had 4 nurse sharks around our back steps. We are very careful about attracting sharks by putting fish scales, guts, frame etc into he water as we’ve noted from other yachts that sharks start to associate yachts with food, and then they come hang around the yachts, which is very disconcerting when you want to go for a swim. We always take the fish bits at least a half mile away from Meshugga, and any other yacht and dump it.

Wednesday was also calm windless conditions and we went diving again down south at Coco Bay.

Jenny suntanning on the dinghy

I snorkeled, did not find anything amazing to photograph, but the water had excellent clarity

Nicholas out from his dive

Having not been successful, we went to the outside/eastern/seaward side of Coco Bay islets, Nicholas and Jenny in the water

Nicholas was successful with one large lobster