Discovering Mayaguana’s lagoon in The Bahamas
After a grueling Atlantic crossing, Alban, Sarah and their son Tom are enjoying a well-deserved stopover on the Bahamian island of Mayaguana.
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Publié le
30/03/2023
Par
Julie Echelle
Numéro :
189
Parution :
May.
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2023
Where: Bahamas
Multihull: Lagoon 42
Instagram: @Sailing_tiama
Murphy’s Law blessed our Transat with three days of dead calm and an upwind finish where we finally diverted to the Grenadines instead of Martinique to avoid finishing the remaining 400 miles motoring against the wind (Yes, we finished our Transat up against a westerly wind. Incredible, isn’t it?).
After sailing up the Caribbean arc, we dropped anchor in Mayaguana, the first island in the southeast of the Bahamas archipelago. Arriving in the lagoon, to the south of the island, we soon forgot the fatigue of the 4-day sail from Saint-Martin.
We discovered the most crystalline water we had ever seen, a lagoon with thousands of coral reefs inhabited by fish of all colors and lobsters by the hundred, to the delight of the captain. We are the only boat in this huge swimming pool. Near the beach, we observed a colony of pink flamingos: Tom, a great bird fan, went crazy. Later in the day, it was our turn to be like children on Christmas morning: a dolphin came to swim with us while we were snorkeling. If we had kept a bucket list, “swimming with a dolphin“ would definitely have been in our top 10. It was time for us to lower the yellow quarantine flag and leave the lagoon to go back to Abrahams Bay to carry out our official clearance and enter the Bahamas which, one thing is for sure, still has some wonderful surprises in store for us.
