Bob and Gail's Next Adventure: Green Turtle Cay

More strong winds are predicted so back to Green Turtle Cay’s protected Black Sound.
We spent two weeks playing pickleball, biking, baking, and snorkeling when the weather allowed.
For those of you who have not heard or are familiar with pickleball – it is a combination of ping pong and tennis – played with a whiffle ball.
Here’s a video of people playing. It is played on a modified tennis court, with a lower net. It is similar to ping pong in scoring but you only play to 11 points.

We had the most beautiful fishing boat docked next to us. La Belle had her own captain and deck hand along with her owners and their friends, all from Texas. Turns out the owner’s wife graduated from my alma mater – Federal Way High. Granted, she graduated 20 years later than I did, but we still had some of the same teachers!

Their deckhand gave me a good education on fishing. The back of the boat bristled with fishing rods.

He cleaned and polished the boat every day and then prepared all the bait for the next fishing trip. These are mullet that he set up to look like a school of fish to attract the larger fish. They were all quite disappointed when they only caught one fish! It was a delicious Mahi Mahi that they shared with us. I kept them supplied with baked goodies!

We biked around the island and found this cute sign directing us to the beach “Beach Dat Way”

Lots of lovely flowers here
Bougainvillea

Cactus “bush”

Beautiful hydrangea

We passed this poor dock everyday. So sad.

Our biggest disappointment in the Bahamas was the wind. It was so strong that we were not able to get out to the outer reef to snorkel. We finally arranged a snorkeling trip with a dive boat. Even they had to change plans due to rough seas. Bob injured his knee playing pickleball, so it was just Judy and I going out. We had a wonderful time on the reef, then feeding the stingrays, and finally feeding the sea turtles.

Chillaxin’