Ft. Pierce, FL-a good crossing!

 Well the weather gurus were correct and we had a good trip from Great Sale Cay to Ft Pierce, FL on April 1.  Coincidently, we made the same crossing April 1, 2014 when we did the loop.  Must be something about April fools day??  

We have decided to leave the boat here for a few weeks, and have some maintenance done while we fly home.  There is a shipyard here that can fit us in and take care of our list, so we opted to leave it with them instead of going farther north.  We plan to resume our travels north May 1. 

It is approximately 170 NM from Green Turtle to Ft Pierce, so we broke the trip up into three segments.  Segment one was a short hop to anchor at Allan's and Pensacola Cays.  There is a decent anchorage there and great snorkeling nearby.  Also there is a creek full of turtles making for a nice dinghy excursion.  From there we went to Great Sale Cay which is an anchorage commonly used to jump off to or from Florida.  Running about 12 knots, it took about 10 hours to Ft Pierce from Great Sale.  The gulf stream had only about a 2' chop.  So we will fly home from Orlando and my next blog post will hopefully be as we are headed north! 

Sunrise, April 1.

We cleared customs via our ROAM app, and struck the Bahamian flag.  I miss the Bahamas already....

The ubiquitous Brown Pelican-a good sign that we are back in Florida.  

The old Coast Guard station in Ft Pierce. 

At anchor-Allan's and Pensacola Cays.  

My last underwater pictures as I wont be doing and diving the rest of the trip.  This is a juvenile Dusky Damselfish. 

A Blue Tang and finger coarl. 

Spanish Hogfish

Four Eye Butterflyfish. 

Soft coral garden. 

Adult Dusky Damselfish. 

Banded Butterflyfish.  

Rock Beauty. 

Grey Angelfish.

Turtle creek-can you spot the turtles? 

What a great last day in the Bahamas! We are now back in the thick of urban living.  Have to learn how to drive a car (not a golf cart) again, not get run down while walking, and drive on the right....  Ces't tout until May.