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Up the Florida Coast: Lucaya to Port Canaveral

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Up the Florida Coast: Lucaya to Port Canaveral In what seems ages ago, back at the end of March, we headed from Lucaya, Grand Bahama back over to Florida. We were en route to Charleston, our summer home for SV Banksy--where we are now. The trip up the Florida coast was lovely, and in general, we've had some incredible sailing, friend visits, and lots of time on lovely beaches. This first "Up the Coast" post covers Lucaya to Port Canaveral.  It was hard to leave the  Lucaya beaches , but on March 29, in the lovely still darkness of early morning, we left Lucaya via the small but beautiful Bell Channel. We had our underwater lights on, and the crystal clear water of the channel provided one of the oddest, coolest things I’ve seen while we were traveling this way: There were two sharks lying ( sleeping ?) right next to each other on the bottom of the channel. One had a sucker fish hanging out on top of it. Sleeping sharks to start our trip?! Wonderful and odd. (Wish I'd
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Next Adventurers

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Next Adventures and Adventurers Our sailing part our sabbatical is complete. I'll still finish our last few blog posts of amazing adventures with beautiful sailing, spinner sharks, dolphins, whales, and more at some point... but for now, catching you up to real time.  Need a beautiful adventure boat? SV Banksy is for sale in Charleston, SC. Next adventurers may apply here:  https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2020-lagoon-42-8293323/
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Best Beaches

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Best Beaches Do you have periods of time in your life that you remember happily and languidly, where your memory is a gorgeous dream state, moments surrounded by shiny light, like sunshine reflecting off turquoise water? The days we spent in Lucaya were like that. Amazing walks on gorgeous white sand beaches, swims in crystal clear water, and a bit of snorkeling around reefs just offshore, accessible by dinghy...  The best beaches on Grand Bahama Island (according to me) are on the long, gorgeous strip of beach between the Bell Channel and the next channel west. This strip of long, low angle beach includes Lucaya Beach and Coral Beach. (Check out the video of Coral beach on FB or IG.) The next best beach is the small part of Taino beach that’s just east of the Bell Channel. It also has lovely white sand and beautifully clear water, along with interesting coral and tidal pools at one end.  Where we were staying in Lucaya wasn’t a great place to invite friends to join us…and so we didn’t
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Lucaya Take Two

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Lucaya Take Two We made it back to The Bahamas! We had a lovely if long day trip (5:10am-1:30am) back to Lucaya yesterday/today from Fort Lauderdale. Ryan has gotten us through customs (only the captain is allowed off the boat) and we are currently waiting for passport control here: Our earlier Lucaya post has more pictures to give you a taste. Especially note the stunning beaches, great for both long walks and swimming. That Blue I know you've heard me talk about this repeatedly: The blue of the water in the Bahamas is just lovely. This next set of pictures shows you a bit more what I mean. It gives you the view I see every time I go up the stairs from our hull. (Owner's hull config has a super nice full-hull bed/office/laundry/bath.) This is an escape hatch (window) in the event the cat flips and we need to get out: The window under the stairs.   Seen here are colors from 1) Fort Lauderdale (not knocking Fort Lauderdale or where we were staying-- you should see the Chesapeak
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