At this point, we had pretty much exhausted the attractions in the immediate vicinity of Staniel Cay and decided to take advantage of the favorable winds from the south to run up to Wardrick Wells in the Exuma Land and Sea Park.  We've contributed some cash to the park so that we get priority access to the best mooring fields and can make reservations in advance.  However, this relies on them actually reading their email and putting us on the list.  They responded to my third follow-up email the day before and said they had just received it and that they would have to put us on a waiting list.  We didn't get the spot in the north field that I was hoping for, so we had to settle for the Emerald Rock field.  They had plenty of space and we did have a really nice sail.  It was downwind and smooth and I don't think the boys spent more than a few minutes outside the salon.  I was a bit concerned that the trip back was going to...

     Finally, the long awaited arrival of the Golden clan!  Lisa and I made Dragonfly as clean and welcoming as we were able and got up nice and early to bring a bag of trash ashore and pick up our 6 seat golf cart to transport the crew around the island.  We were a bit early, so we decided to get breakfast and wait until we needed to head to the airport to pick them up.  There was a brief moment of panic when I got a text from Karen saying they were ahead of schedule and I thought they had already landed.  Of course, breakfast was being delivered at the leisurely pace that most all services are performed in the Bahamas and I thought we were off to a very poor start indeed.  It turned out that she was texting me from an intermediate stop on another island.  We ended up having time to eat our breakfast slowly and still beat them to the airport.  They arrived safe and sound, if a bit worn out from the brutal schedule where they must h...

    Sometime, probably about 15 years ago, one of my nephews used to run around our house pretending to be the shark from Jaws and we would all shout out the famous theme song as he ran around.  The way one pretends to be a shark is by holding one's hands together on the top of one's head in imitation of a shark's fin.  At the time his head was relatively enormous and his hands couldn't quite reach to the top of his head, making it that much more amusing.  Since then, Lisa and I use that as our code to indicate that the nephews are on the way, either with the song or the hand gesture or both when their arrival is imminent.  Over these few days, the theme song was heard pretty often aboard Dragonfly. Nephews coming!      Shopping was done, the boat was mostly clean and the weather was promising (or at least decent) for a run north.  So, we headed out of Georgetown on our way back to Staniel Cay where my family was flying in a fe...