Fast Passage South

Taking advantage of some unusual Northerly winds, we quickly made our way from the Exumas to Rum Cay, Mayaguana, then finally Great Inagua where we checked out of the Bahamas.  Just needed to check out, get our dispatch papers from customs then take on a little fuel.  No simple trick when you have to side tie to a bare concrete wall, have the fuel truck in the back of a pickup, then siphoned into the tanks through another filter.

This was just a morning stop, and we were back into the Northerly winds.  Normally cruisers head to the Turks and Caicos on their way to Luperon on the north coast of Hispanola, however, we decided on a different route which took us through the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti with the indention of cruising the South coast of the Dominican Republic.

After reading some favorable reviews of Ile A Vache (island of the cows) on the South coast of Haiti, we decided to make a stop.

It is just magical place, like a chunk of sub sahara Africa drifted over to the Americas.