A Perfect Day

Rare as it is, when the stars align, there are perfect days.

Today is A Perfect Day.

For once, what you see in these pictures is precisely what you get.

Gentle warm breeze, no no-see-ums (this in itself is a God send!), sun-kissed, salty and happy children.

We arrived here yesterday after a 5 hour sail from Cape Eleuthera Marina after dropping Gong Gong off at the airport.

We are at Warderick Wells Cay in the Exumas Cays Land and Sea Park. It is a 176 square mile area national park that protects all land and marine life here in the Bahamas. It is heaven on earth.

There are no services for electricity, water, diesel, gas or removal of garbage.

There are no cafes, restaurants, bars or grocery stores.

We have to hoist our little BTC My Island Wifi egg up to the top of the mast to get two bars of scatty signal.

Everyone must use the mooring balls provided ($35 USD/night). Anchoring is only available in one outlying area.

I swear when we were coming into the mooring field yesterday I couldn't believe how gorgeous it was.

To be honest, I'm getting a bit blase about beaches and turquoise waters (I know, shame on me!) so take my word for it. If I say it's gorgeous here, it really truly is.

This morning we went snorkeling with nurse sharks, barracudas, eagle rays, colourful coral and a variety of fish.

We forgot to insert an SD card into our GoPro so no pictures unfortunately. Oh well, I told the kids to take lots of 'mental pictures' instead, that way we'll all dream in technicolour tonight.

We watched the documentary 'Mission Blue' on Netflix last night. So appropriate and timely for the life we're currently living and how relevant it is to our blue world.

Today is A Perfect Day.

Whatever tomorrow brings, at least we had today.

Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park Mooring field.

Tai eating his homemade chocolate muffin after our snorkel.

Chore for the day, scraping barnacles off the hull and rudder. Could be worse. Matt scrubbing the hull. Aila directing from up on deck. :)

Aila and Matt running on the nearby sandbar at low tide.

Siblings who love to Minecraft together.

Goodnight world. Thank you for a perfect day.