Piggyville & The Whale - Sailing the Abaco Out Islands

We are cruising right now between 7.5 and 8 knots. Depths are anywhere from 8 to 11 feet, so nice shallow water sailing. And we left Man Jack, headed to Green Turtle. We're going to wait for a nice little calm spot to the Whale Passage and head over to Marsh Harbor. The next leg of the trip is beautiful! It's perfect sailing conditions today, but, and a big but is, the winds are directly from the east. So we can't get through Whale Cut because of this thing called the Rage. And it's like this crazy swell that happens when the water is really deep in the Atlantic and then it comes in on the shallow shores and creates really dangerous conditions. So that's why we're going to either Turtle Key or No Name Key to wait for the Rage to go away. But, never fear, we aren't stupid, or we try not to be stupid. So, we're going to do it when it's safe. Right? Right! Aye Aye! 8.1 knots! Woo! On a 60 degree angle, so not too bad! Good! We are almost to No Name, where we'll be there in like 5 minutes. And I think our total sail today, from the anchors up to anchors down, is about an hour. So, very, very short little trip. It's such a nice day, it almost makes me want to keep going or just do circles. Just because! And we would! Yeah! If we could! But why can't we? Looks like maybe somebody's headed... Well, we need to go explore our little key here before we head off to our next destination. But, it is a high traffic area, and I will show you why. Right over here, there are boats that come all day long to go see the pigs. There are a little family of pigs that live on this key. And they are quite the attraction. Nobody else stays here overnight but us. But everybody comes for the pig. So, we will go for the pigs. Not a bad beach to call home. Hello, little piggy. Hello. I don't have anything. He's offended. So disappointed. You're just bound determined. I just want to grab a little piggy. I don't have anything. He looks friendly. He's like, everybody left, so I might as well come and hang out. Okay, bye piggies. Two nights, three days here at No Name, and we have decided we're going to pull up the anchor and mosey our way through Whale. Whale cut. It's supposed to be super dangerous because of this thing called the Rage. Everyone we've run across says do not go without local knowledge. We've called people on the VHF or hailed people on the VHF for the past three days with no response, channel 16 and 68. We've tuned in to the Cruiser's Net forum. Not a mention from anybody about, well, I guess they mention it, but they have no report. So, you know, who knows? There's no information. Went to barometer Bob, no information. So I guess we're kind of on our own. Oh, we have seen dozens of boats the past three days come in and out. So we're assuming dozens of boats have not crashed and ended up dead. So hopefully we're okay. It was really buried. So we're good to go. Good to go. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say the anchor was hooked pretty well. All right, let's make some hot water. Colored water way out there. There's only like two feet of sandbar that just goes forever. I think he's going to set the action cam so we don't have to go up front. The breakers are on our left right now. And we are almost out of this channel or cut and into whale cave passage. We're going to hang a right. How do you like that sailing term? And then we got the main sail up to help us steady. We're going to get broadside hit by waves, so it'll be slightly uncomfortable. But so far, so good. Just a little bit of swell. I'm optimistic. That's a good word. Stage, no problem. And decided to go ahead and kick up the sails. Go a little further because it's a nice day. Cruising along at about seven knots. And all is good. What you going for? Ice cream. Ice cream, you scream, we all scream. Ice cream. Ice cream here for a pint is like $9. So it's good to have a stock supply. There's all these lobster tails in the way. Life is so hard. There we go. Cookies and ice cream while sailing. There's not much better in life. Pretty much heaven. Perfect. Is that two ice creams for you or one of those for me? Well, I thought about giving you one, but... All right, sails are down. We are heading into Marsh Harbor for two things. Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi? Provisions. We need to go to the grocery store. And there's one really, really good rum that I really want to buy that we might be able to find here. Maybe.