Anchor down in Snug Corner, Acklins Bahamas. Easy trip.

Left Hawks Nest Marina on Cat Island last night and arrived at Acklins Island this morning about 10:30am. This place is huge. In the middle of the bight on our way in between Crooked and Acklins we could barely see land anywhere around us, but as far as the eye could see the water was 8′ deep or shallower. It’s interesting with our 5′ draft we had to anchor almost 2 miles of shore. Winds are relatively light and with the shallow water only small chop can build up. So it is very comfortable.

This afternoon we went on a dingy excursion trying to get to Lovely Bay Settlement. Turned into a 25 mile dingy excursion where we discovered in October 2015, Hurricane Juaquin destroyed miles and miles of Mangroves and also completely changed the depths on the way. At low tide we couldn’t get through the channel to the north in the tender… it was less than 1′ deep instead of the 3′ shown.

Almost the entire tender ride was in water 3′ or less. Someplaces if you come off of plane the propeller would be buried in the sand. This is also in the middle of nowhere. We were 10 miles or more from the nearest settlement, much less civilization. I’d hate to break something out here.

In a few places the Mangroves are trying to return. Others are a mile from shore now. This is what it looks 4 years later in an area that used to be in the middle of the mangrove swamp.

In the evening we enjoyed wonderful bone in rib eye steak grilled on the Green Egg, twice baked potatoes and Caesar Salad. This along with a nice Olabisi Cabernet concluded a good day. We’ll sleep well tonight after last nights overnight passage.

Oh and to top it off… We saw a fantastic pass overhead of the International Space Station. It was a 3 star pass that started at 8:04pm and ended 6 minutes later. It was fantastically bright and so fast to see it move past the other stars. So hard to imagine people are up there in space looking down at us. If you’d like to see the space station try the ISS Spotter App.