Hani is back and failuer to launch..

First - sorry....

Mermaid reef 

I thought I publish another post after the June 18th one - I was wrong. For some reason, the blog I wrote including (actually, most of it) photos and videos, failed to publish, and now is lost. So - sometime in the near future I will publish it (e.g. the photos and videos) again.
I think the issue was video size.

Selfie underwater 

So, Hani is back, now just over a week, again after a miserable, delayed, frustrating, etc. flight back from Israel.

Conch shell

Our daughter, Avivit (Avi), and two grandkids, came on the same day too.
The original plan was that Hani will be here before they will, however, …. Plans aside, Avi and the kids came first, I took them back to the marina, to the pool, than restaurant, than pool, than ......

Hani came. - poor lady, Hani does not have great luck with flights for the last few years.

Avi and the kids were here for a week.
We took them to snorkel with the fish in Mermaid reef - not a great success, with fresh water non-swimmers, getting into salt water for the first time, and with hundred of fish around them. You guest it right - it was a quick visit (very quick).

A beach to ourselves in Green Turtle Cay 

So we decided to take them to a very protected cove, with less than knee deep water (kids height). That proved to be a challenge too.

After awhile the kids got more comfortable (read - not relaxed, but not crying anymore), so we snorkeled around (mainly Avi, as Hani and I looked after the kids). Avi forgot that when you snorkel on the surface, your back is pointing to the sun = major sunburn!!!

Cocoa swimming (almost)

And that was the first full day they were here.....

Next day we took a ferry to Hope Town, we walked, visited places, drank some alcohol, at the Hope Town Inn, walked some more, and back to the boat, e.g. - pool!!

Next day - rain..... so - pool and some local sightseen
On Sunday, we took the boat out, and sailed (read - no wind, use engines) to No Name Cay.

Ferry to Hope Town

No Name Cay, used to be a deserted small island just south of Green Turtle Cay, that had some pigs living on it. Cruisers will bring them water and some fruits.
No more; someone build a pub, put a small dock for small boats, and developed the area.

Grandparent duty and Hani having a great time with the kids

We anchored about 400' from shore, and still where rocked by the boats going in and out from the bur dock.

At anchor - sunset

We took the dinghy down, rain, went to shore, rain, gave apples to the pigs - Leila got "kissed" in her leg by the mother pig, - not a happy place. I have no plans to visit this place again

Rainbow after the storm

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so we took the dinghy and went to the south side of Green Turtle Cay. That was amazing. Deserted beach, clear sand, clear water.
It was so nice, that we went there again the next morning for a few hours, before we left to Man-O-War Cay.

Between the two seas

We sail part of the time to the Cay, and anchored next to the rock point in the northern section of the Cay.

Having fun on the beach

This is an amazing anchorage. We took the dinghy to town in the afternoon (after a major storm has passed - over 35kt of wind and major rain and lightning), and to the amazing bay in the morning.

There is a very small stretch of lend in this area; 30 feet wide. One side the Sea of Abaco, the other, the Atlantic ocean.

Leila caught a fish

We had great time there.

On Tuesday we came back to the marina, went to the pool (again) etc.

The next day, we walked to the other side on town to a nice beach - the kids preferred the pool in that location... I guess salt water is not their preferred swimming water.

On Thursday they flew home, and we have started cleaning the boat :-)

 Below are some underwater and above water (were Hani is testing the automatic inflatable life jacket) videos