Little San Salvador

(posted by Clare from email)
The weather hasn't been good this week, high winds and/or very grey skies. Not cold, but sweater required when sailing. More to come on Wed and Thur next week. We're in Little San Salvador at the moment, a small island between Eleuthera and Cat Island. It is owned by the Holland America cruise line, and their ships anchor off this bay about 3 times a week and disgorge thousands of people to explore the specially built shopping centre at one end of the beach, or have fun doing various water sports. Having said that the island is otherwise completely 'au natural', and at our end of the bay we only see a few strollers and a group of horses and their riders. After the ship left at about 4pm today the horses were allowed to gallop, riderless, on the beach, looked as though they were really enjoying themselves!
So far we haven't had very good snorkelling though I enjoyed watching a whole family of squid this afternoon. We caught a yellow tail and three rock cod from the dinghy this morning and will be putting them on the barbie in due course. A large baracuda got hold of one poor fish after it was hooked, and managed to bite a brand new lure in half.
We will probably be in Georgetown on Thurs. so can let you know where we're anchored in more detail.