Little Farmers Cay April 12

This morning we sailed down the island chain to Little Famer's Cay. What a friendly place! We stopped at Ocean Cabin for some cracked conch and grouper lunch. At the end, the restaurant owners asked us to sing with them the song Little Farmers Cay. It starts off ....



Little Farmers Cay-
Smiling in the turquoise sea
lazing in the sun at noon
dreaming safe beneath the moon...



Farmer's Cay is the second smallest isolated community in the Bahamas. It is 1 and 1/4th miles long by 7/8ths miles wide. It was settled by freed slaves from the Exumas about 165 years ago. Today there are about 70 permanent residents. The people are known for their friendliness and we have certainly experienced that.

By the way - -  It's a tradition with cruisers at  sunset to get our their conch horn and blow them to celebrate another wonderful day on the sea.  While at Farmer's Cay, we asked were we could purchase a conch horn for s/v Eagle's Wings.  We found that the local woodcarver made them.  Check out our picture above to see our new horn!

 
Tomnorrow we will travel approximately 35 miles to Georgetown. We hope to be there for the Exuma family sailing races and then start heading back trying to see what we've missed along the way. We hope to be back home by mid May to help my Mom move to our "neck of the woods." Over and out from Joanne & Richard from Little Farmer's Cay...

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