We were thrilled to see our friends from Amazing Grace 2 come cruising into the anchorage today. We’ve been emailing and calling each other on the SSB radio over the last few months and they just got to a place where we were finally all close enough to meet up.

We met Amazing Grace 2 at Jekyll Island Georgia where we spent an entire month re-provisioning, and avoiding the cold weather. We were tied to the same dock and we truly enjoyed the kids and their parents. What nice folks and what a treat to see them again.

Now that they are here it seems a strange time to leave but the weather is the master and commander while at sea and we are in for more lows with a westerly component. That means, at least in this anchorage, that instead of Wardrick Wells we will have Wardrick Swells, so we’re off.

We can’t leave though until we have put our boat names onto a board or other beach found item and left it at Boo Boo hill. It’s a tradition and so we’ll all hike up to Boo Boo hill and pile our representative memorabilia up on the stack of other signs and plaques.

With the weather hot on our heels we’ll scramble to the Cambridge mooring field and anchor across from the moorings.

Turns out it was still a bit swelly but at least it wasn’t the constant bounce that it was a Wardrick.

Cambridge is still in the national park and so we dove some, Paul and Peter went cave diving, together. We explored a small rocky piece of land that passed as an island and found it was an incredible hermit crab nursery. That was cool, the kids had hermit crab races and designed elaborate hermit crab race tracks. Taua invited us over to learn to make Spaetzle, which was probably the highlight of the trip for me. It was a good time and just over too soon.

Because we want to stop at Piggy Beach, Bitter Guana, Thunderball Cave and Black Point and still need to get fuel before going to Georgetown we have to be moving on. Sadly Amazing Grace 2 will stay here. Well not sad for them they plan to dive and cavort some more so it’s great for them.

We have company coming in to Georgetown and need to make sure that we get down there before they do. We’ll be headed along and hopefully Amazing Grace 2 will catch up with us in Georgetown. Taua will move with us, kind of them to be sensitive to our schedule! I’m not sure what Nicole would do without Claudia.