We arrived at Chub Cay on Friday, March 10th, with the expectation of staying the weekend before traveling again. We made the reservation there because the forecast was for a large storm, Saturday and Sunday with winds of 30 mph and we wanted to have a little more protection for out boat.
Chub Cay is a beautiful resort on the southern most tip of the Berry Islands. It has an airstrip that some visitors fly into, but the majority of the people arrive by boat.
And some of the boats are pretty impressive. Did you see the one that looks like it belongs to a Bond 007 villain? There was another yacht in the harbor that was for sale. It's name was "C'mon man", and the asking price was 3.5 million.
Our boat was anchored on a floating dock which could rise with the change of tides. This particular anchoring post needs a little TLC but each of these is about a foot in diameter and are sunk many feet into the bedrock of the island.
This marina is unusual in that the seawater is allowed to flow into the marina and go back to the sea through this manmade canal.
As a result we have some interesting visitors in the marina.
This guy was only about 6 ft and harmless, but we did see Bull sharks in the marina. There were lots of signs saying "No fishing or diving in the marina" because of those visitors, but our next door neighbor named Mike dropped his favorite coffee mug overboard and couldn't retrieve it with out net soooooo......
The initial forecast of one storm became one low pressure after another so we were stuck in the marina until March 20th but at least they had hot showers, a laundromat, a very nice pool area and beach.
We ate dinner one night at the Nauti Rooster which was delicious, but most of the time we cooked for ourselves on the boat. We got to know several other boaters who were kind enough to lend us a hose to refill our water tanks and give lots of advice about the weather. We actually left the marina on Saturday, March 18th, but after being thrown around in the pre-dawn darkness by 6 foot waves and having the boat list to each side by 30 degrees at a time, we radioed our buddy boat that was supposed to follow us out and said we were coming back in. The staff at Chub Cay is outstanding and accommodated our extended stay and even made us feel welcome.
All through that night, the boat though tied down with multiple dock lines, rocked and rolled and leaked.
Notice the pots and pans under the worst of the leaky hatches. But the storm brought down more than rain. It knocked coconuts out of the trees! They were yummy.
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