American Made & Pablo Escabar – Norman Cay, Exumas

We finally got out of Royal Island and Spanish Wells!  There was nothing was bad about it, there just wasn’t much there and we had not been off the boat in 4 days.  I was rejoicing to be sailing again.  We had settled on a destination of Exumas Land & Sea Park and Norman Cay was on our way.  We stopped over for the night since at least we could get off the boat and it was only 10 miles away.  after our unwelcome time at Highbourne Key, we were glad to be heading here.

After we dropped anchor, we tried to snorkel pablo esbar’s plane wreck but the water was freezing – even for Ron.  We went to plan B which was to explore the island.  Honestly, other than a super yacht marina and an airport, it was pretty desserted.  Wran accross a beautiful stone path and stopped two locals (the only people we saw on the island), and they told us this is where the movie American Made was filmed (with Tom Cruise) and the movie crew had built all that was here and left it to the island we they were finished.  Now I understand the airport and super yacht marina.

Because 21 is too fast

Huge Docks but no Marina?   oh and $7 a foot to stay

The runway is almost as long as the entire island

After our walk down the yellow brick road, we decided to have happy hour on the beach.  We gathered our chairs and camped out to await the sunset, grill, and get a good night’s sleep before we headed to the mooring we had reserved at the park tomorrow.  It was anchors up at 9:00am and we were off!   Best thing about most things here in the Bahamas is all of our entertainment and 1/2 our rent is free! 

Not a bad way to end the day.

Our own deserted beach bar.