Saturday 4/25/09 Today started like many others. Wake up, look at charts, read, wait for Pam to wake up and then listen to the weather report. Since we don't have all the high tech means of obtaining weather forecasts we rely on the daily report from Exuma Park which is read over the marine radio at 8 am daily and projects six days out. Nice of them to do that or we'd be in the dark completely. Also Highborne Cay does the same at 7:30 am but only goes out 3 days.
By 10:20 am we were ready to go! We went at trawler speed the 12.4 miles up to Normans Cay and anchored off of the west side of the island due to the strong east winds. Our first order of business was to jump in the dinghy and head down to MacDuffs at the Normans Cay Beach Club and check it out. We beached the dinghy at a sandy spot on the rocky shore and walked down the beach in search of food and drink. We found it tucked back in the island between the beach and a runway. Neat little place with good food and cold beer. Pam particularly liked the bathroom which was outside under the umbrella! No door. Just a sign that said open or occupied on front and back. Just hope the wind doesn't blow.
Sunday we went back to Macduffs for lunch and then set out to find the famous airplane which crash landed during the height of the drug smuggling days back in the 80's. As you would imagine salt water and time have taken their toll on the plane. It seems that back then Normans Cay was controlled by a guy named Carlos Lehder who was a Colombian drug lord. He used the island to smuggle drugs into the US. Drug agents posing as cruisers having boat trouble were able to gather enough evidence to arrest and convict Carlos and send him up the river.
Just so you don't think life is all play down here I'll have you know that I changed the oil, filter and sea water impeller on the generator while anchored at Normans!
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