Nassau at last!

Hey Everyone!!
Yes! We finally made it to the Bahamas! You can see our path by going to our SPOT web map. I posted the address on a previous blog, so go back after you read this & check for the link. Or… http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=09GSAiPTTFXn5LSfvHcSLmWKCn7rGBi9j
First things first though……Sorry we haven’t written lately!! We were under a serious time crunch to get work done & we are now missing 4 major letter keys on our keyboard, so it is really hard to type without a T,I,O,& N!!!!! There are little holes where the keys used to be, but you have to stick something in hem to push the letter, which makes typing really slow & difficult. The P & U are on their way out too, so don’t expect many long blogs after this, it’s just way too hard. Sorry!!
Also, we haven’t written since before Christmas I think, So Ill tell you about that first!
We had a great Christmas despite running out of gas under a bridge & having to hoist the sails & get ourselves down the crazy red/green path that is the ICW to a spot deep enough to anchor, then send Ben a mile or more out in the dink to retrieve gas (which he ended up having to walk like 4 miles with) then we continued our lovely journey to Cocoa where Kristen cooked up a nice dinner & we had eggnog & rums. We went to bed fairly early & opened presents in the morning. (Skippy opened his too!!)
Then we set out for another few days of motoring & made it eventually to Lettuce lake near Ben’s grandpa Reg’s house!! We were excited to get there!! We had a terrible few days previously & still maintain the opinion that Southern Florida is a useless place with terrible people and we hope never to return!!! Seriously!! (except the scuba guy who was extremely helpful & surprisingly friendly)
So… We were in Lettuce Lake & only a canal away from Reg’s house. Very nice. Reg drove us to the post office where four of our packages were waiting for us!! We were soooo excited to open them!!! We received mom’s, Ma & Pa Davidson’s, Doug & Janet’s, and Cy’s!! Thank you all!! We however did not receive Tylers, Jessica’s, Mary’s, or Doug’s packages!! The post office ladies where we sent our mail didn’t want to hold it….even though they are supposed to & sent some of it to the next post office over & some of it back to it’s senders…totally illegal, but arguing was a loosing battle, so we are really, really sorry to those of you who’s packages were sent back!! We were eagerly looking forward to seeing what you sent!! Thank you so much for thinking of us & trying so hard to get your packages all the way over here on time. Once again, we hate Florida, nothing is right here!!
We will see you all in summer though, so we can have Christmas in July!!!J
Anyway, Seeing Reg was nice & Ben’s dad John came in on the first, which was awesome & the three of us spent the next few days working like mad on the boat. Ben went up the mast & they pulled the turbo & reinstalled the new one. We did all of our provisioning & everything else we needed done, then said goodbye to Reg & set off for Lake Sylvia in Fort Lauderdale where we were ready to hit the high seas around 3:00 am.
After the sun came up It was beautiful!! The dreaded Gulf stream was calm & flat. I for one was elated!!! We have been warned & heard the horror stories of the Gulf stream when the winds aren’t just right. We didn’t have enough wind to sail alone, so we motor sailed across. We made it in 12 hours & arrived at 3:00 in the afternoon! Which is awesome, because we were estimating 14 hours!!
Things were looking up since leaving Florida behind!! Not only did we make amazing time in flat, calm seas, but Ben caught a Mahi Mahi!!! It was delicious!! We had it for dinner that night!
The next morning we woke up & headed out in the ocean again after some more work to the boat for an overnighter to the Berry islands. We had a fine crossing and a full moon!! We also had Tuna for dinner, because John caught one on the way!! It was even better than the Mahi!! Our luck was truly looking up!!
We made our destination at around 3:30 in he morning & settled in. We all slept in pretty late & lounged around most of the day. We took the dinghy to shore where the white sand beaches are like nothing you’ve ever seen before!!! It’s like white talcum powder!! I forgot to mention the water too!! You have never seen water like his before!! We can’t stop looking at I!! Its the most outrageous electric blue color!! The visibility Is 100 or more feet too!! Crazy! We went for a swim & headed out for our new anchorage 10 miles away on a new island. We were in a bit of a race to get John to the airport in Nassau by today, so we were traveling quickly, because we left Florida a lot later than expected. We were still having a lot of fun & the guys pulled up another fish that we are calling a Jack, but aren’t really sure about & that one was delicious too!!
We are definitely not going to go hungry anytime soon, because after that we pulled up the biggest & freakiest fish yet…a Spanish mackerel. I was huge & also really tasty!! We have mastered he art of trolling a line, now we have to see how we do with spear fishing!!! I’m very excited!! I think we have to finish eating that 11 lbs of mackerel we have in the fridge first though.
Well, we are off again to get John to another port on New Providence (which is he island Nassau is on) we are currently in West Bay. He will catch his plane in a few hours.
We will try to keep up our blog, but it is becoming increasingly difficult & the Internet is spotty down here!! Keep up on the spots to see where we are!!
We really miss you all & can’t wait to hear from you!!!

-So we tried to head up the island to get John to the marina and in the middle of crashing through waves in the channel, a big fish hit! Ben had put the line out after raising anchor trying for one more. We had to turn back because of the large swell, but not before landing a huge Red Snapper!!! We got John a hitchhike ride to the airport and hope that went well. Anyways, we have to go eat some fish! 5 different fishies in 5 days!!

-Hey agian, it's been a few days since John went home & we haven't been able to get internet , so it's been a few days since I wrote the blog above. Just wanted to say we made it to Nassau & will be headed to the Exumas on Wednesday or Thursday & don't know when we will have access again after that. Please keep writing to us though.

P.S. Doug, I got your message & wanted to say hi!!! We will call soon.

-Krsten, Ben, & Skippy!