When we decided to go to the Berry Islands, part of our excitement was that the islands from top to bottom are only 20 miles long so we thought we could easily move through that particular chain, but we learned that much of the west side of the islands is very shallow water, so to travel south we needed to travel 10 miles to the west to find water that was at least 12 feet deep to safely turn south toward Chub Cay. This turned what we originally thought would be a 4 hour trip into a 10 hour one.
But the weather was beautiful and we were able to put our sails up and use the wind to propel us. This is actually our buddy boat "Dream Again". 
The sun cast a shadow of our sail in the beautiful Bahamian water.
And the winds were gentle enough that Cindy was able to catch a nap for part of the trip. 
Part of the trip we traveled through deeper water so we put out a fishing line hoping to catch dinner. But we only caught a barracuda and we had been told not to eat it because they can carry a parasite that makes people sick, so David cut him loose.
In the process of cutting the fish loose one of our cockpit cushions blew over the side of the boat and we spent 15 minutes chasing it and luckily retrieving it with a long handled net.
Our second catch of the day.
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