Chub Cay Marina, Bahamas, February 19-26, 2022

      As I think I've mentioned previously, Chub Cay wasn't our first choice because it is known a bit more for being a sport fishing hub than a cruisers stop.  We have kind of a love/hate relationship with marinas.  They are a lot more expensive (in the Bahamas they run $150-200 a night for our boat normally).  The upside is that they typically have some amenities like swimming pools, restaurants, unlimited hot water for showers and washing machines and dryers for clothes.  If you anchored off the island, you didn't pay anything, but you didn't get all that stuff either.

The folks who chose not to pay the marina still got the cool sunsets.

     One of the downsides of the marina is that you don't always get positioned to take advantage of the breezes.  As I type this post, I'm at anchor somewhere else in the Bahamas and the wind is absolutely blasting through the boat making everything 15 degrees cooler.  What's hard to judge is how often you will meet people.  In the marina, I ended up meeting people from about a dozen boats and some of that was a lot of fun.  We met another couple through a mutual friend and they invited us onto their lovely boat where we spent the night drinking wine and telling tales.  Once they realized how inexperienced we are, they spent a lot of time teaching us the ropes of places not to miss and consulted with us on weather planning.  They have a blog that they update even less than I do.

Vanessa and Ed, who have already leapfrogged us and settled in at Georgetown.

    We also met a fantastic couple who were tied up next to us and sadly cutting their cruising season short as they head back to Florida for cancer treatment.  In the brush with fame department, we helped SV OliLuki tie up behind us and had to admit that we have watched a number of their YouTube videos.  We had apparently just missed Sailing La Vagabonde, whose video on Chub Cay is much cooler than my blog post.  Perhaps thats why half a million people watched it and slightly fewer will read this.  They were lovely and helped 'hook us up with a good boat shop in Florida that we are confident will get our air conditioning squared away in June.  It is a pretty nice aspect of this life that it seems to be really easy to meet new people and make new friends.  I look forward to meeting many more.

Sunsets at the Tiki Bar or pool seemed to be hub of the social life at Chub Cay.

 We spent plenty of time hanging around the pool and hot tub, especially in the afternoon when the sun tends to heat up the boat a lot.  We did finally put the snap on sunshades on the windows and were absolutely amazed at how much of a difference they made in keeping the boat cool.  I should have been doing that all summer at home, for sure.  Live and learn. 

The restaurant as seen from the pool next to the tiki bar.  I'll spare you the hot tub photos.

     We did manage to get three big run/hikes in while we were there, which is easier to do when at a marina for sure.  One of the cooler ones was to a creek called turtle creek, which is swarming with baby sea turtles doing their thing.  I don't think my fitness is entirely keeping up, but I'm trying to do something!

Lisa has embraced Instagram now and is posting lots of artistic stuff like this.  Follow her!

     I don't have all that much to say about the dining scene.  There is one restaurant and since its either that or cook for yourself on the boat, they don't have to try very hard. Since being the chef is mostly my job, I was glad to try it out and of course I had the lobster, because that's what you do.  It was fine, but I wouldn't make the trip just to eat there.

They did have a nice bottle of Rose at more or less ordinary restaurant mark up.



Location: Chub Cay Resort & Marina Chub Cay, The Bahamas

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