Little Farmer a treasure

 

We anchored near the green mark just off the runway.

The winds have lightened a bit this morning and we watched a dozen boats leave Black Point heading mostly north but we leave late morning for the south to Little Farmers Cay. Just motoring now into the wind and over the shallows getting in as close to the NW beach to protect against the E to SE winds and waves. This works out ok but we are a bit exposed and I am still having trust issues with my anchors ground tackle. 

I watched the cruiser behind us go into Ty’s Sunset Rest and another dinghy go over so I thought I would go check it out. In the time it takes me to get to the beach, talk to one of the other dinghies (I met in Black point), the place was closed. I looked around and out the back door there’s a runway for the island airport. This gets little use except for the first Friday in February festival

   These photos are panoramic shots of Little Harbor. 

To the left on this view you see the cell tower… Very important and a restaurant if you zoom in.

To the right if you zoom in you can see the group of people with Dino looking at turtles

To the boat, get Sheri and we drive around the east side of the island and into the small island harbor. The cement quay is lined with finger piers and mostly fishing boats. We pull up to the dock with the most activity and meet the turtle whisperer, Dino. We watch him try to engage the turtle for some tourist but it’s the end of the day and the turtle isn’t interested. We walk up to the Ocean Cabin Restaurant and make reservations for tomorrow, our tourist day.

Even though Ty’s restaurant is closed they have lots of solar lights on the front steps that light up the water out to our boat area. We head for our 9:30 am meeting with Dino and it was fun. The big mature turtle ate conch that Dino gave him and swam around with me.Because they do not fish in this harbor the amount of variety of fish in it was incredible. Bought a Souvenir from Debbies Straw works and off to the cave on Great Guana Cay. 

So many of these islands have caves and this one you could hire a guide and arrange a one tank dive in depth up to 50 feet and opening up to 500. We were content to stand on the edge and look at the formations and the bats that we’re not happy with the camera light.

Small hand written signs direct you out back

We headed back to the boat for lunch, rest and showers. The final walk in Little Harbor featured a visit to JR the wood carver. For 50 years he has been carving at his studio behind his house. The show room for his work is also his garden shed so the slight smell of gas from the lawnmower and weed wacker add ambience. He has a large variety of fruit trees in his yard that get fertilized with all of the wood chips he creates. 

We were early for our 530 dinner so we sat in the shade on the front porch overlooking Little harbor, enjoying Kalik and music.

Dinner was lobster and mahi-mahi that was very good and we finished in time to return to the boat for our 630 call to my sister Laura her husband Pat and my mother. We sat on the back of the boat and had excellent reception for a nice video call.

Our next stop is a anchorage at Prime Cay. There was a forecasted blow coming through with winds from a variety of directions. This anchorage offers  great protection. Since it is only about a three hour trip we didn’t leave until 11 AM on the 11th so that we could make the entrance at high Tide. Also when you go through the Cut’s between the islands it’s always easier closer to Slack Tide. 

If you go out of business they just take your arrow off