corkscrew cruising: 2/8/17 thru 2/11/17

Surprise! We pulled into Old Bahama Bay Marina yesterday at 1:30, after leaving West Palm Beach @ 6:00 am (in the dark), which I did not like at all. But in an hour the sun started rising and everything was much better...............We are at the west end of Grand Bahama Island. This marina is actually very nice, but Hurricane Matthew did a lot of damage here on this island. As for the marina, the main thing was the storm surge which was so high that it damaged all of their power poles. They are in the process of repairing and/or replacing these poles. So; we do not have power here, and that means we have to run our generator a lot to keep everything going. The refrigerator is our main concern. One of the boaters walked around to all of us here and invited us to their dock for docktails. Very nice and we got to meet some new people........
Our plans were to leave here today and go to an anchorage, but the weather was not good to travel (too windy)! So we will be here till at least Sunday. This is actually a good place to be, a beach, pool, restaurant, gift shop and lots of other boaters doing exactly what we are. Most are sailboaters, but there are several power boaters also. This is a great resort area. A friend that we just met, and I rode our bikes to a secluded beach and found a lot of gorgeous beach glass! Hopefully, I can make some jewelry with some of these pieces. Also; Sonny, Marena and I rode our bikes into their little village to a market and bought some produce. Oh my gosh, the devistation of the storm is horrible.There is a sailboat that arrived the day before us,(Tuesday); but they decided to anchor out fairly close rather than staying at the marina. Anyhow; their anchor didn't set good and it drug them into shallow water. After many attempts to move it, the owner (who has stayed on it these last 5 days), finally decided to abandon the boat. What a shame..............all because the anchor wasn't set good enough! It could happen to any of us,at anytime......