{"id":1025,"date":"2018-03-27T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T21:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2018-03-27T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T21:25:41","slug":"day-6-leaving-man-o-war-snorkeling-at-matt-lowes-cay-and-mermaid-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/27\/day-6-leaving-man-o-war-snorkeling-at-matt-lowes-cay-and-mermaid-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 &#8211; Leaving Man-O-War, Snorkeling at Matt Lowes Cay and Mermaid Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up early as we were planning to leave at 5:45 to catch maximum high tide.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was storming and very dark so it wasn&#8217;t safe to leave.\u00a0 We slept for another hour then readied the boat to get underway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-494 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/image-12.jpg\" alt=\"Image-1(2)\" width=\"320\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our plan was to head to the Sugar Loaf reefs near Matt Lowes Cay (only 2.7 nautical miles away) but we knew we were losing time to navigate through the narrow shallow channel out of the marina.\u00a0 It was challenging and a great learning opportunity&#8230;Captain Thom was at the helm, I was navigating and calling out the depth from the depth meter.\u00a0 Everyone else was on deck as we departed the marina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-493 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/image-13.jpg\" alt=\"Image-1(3)\" width=\"320\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0anchored near the Sugar Loaf reefs and a few people snorkeled but it was pretty rough and there wasn&#8217;t much to see.\u00a0 We decided to head over to Mermaid Reef which was just outside of the Marsh Harbour Marina where we needed to return the boat the following day.\u00a0 It was a great decision as the snorkeling was fantastic <em>(no, I didn&#8217;t snorkel but most of the others did). <\/em>It was a great decision as the snorkeling was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1038 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SNORKEL-PIC-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SNORKEL-PIC-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SNORKEL-PIC-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SNORKEL-PIC-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SNORKEL-PIC-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SNORKEL-PIC.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had a nice lunch on the hook (at anchor), Deb and Patti did a little more snorkeling and then we headed to Harbour View Marina to spend our last night on the boat.\u00a0 We had a cocktail while lounging on the deck of our catamaran, did a little dancing and watched the sunset.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-498 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/img_8861.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8861.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-500 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/fullsizerender-31.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender 3.jpg\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/img_8863.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8863.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-499 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/img_8857.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8857.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-495 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/img_6485.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6485.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-497 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/img_8864.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8864.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-503 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jeannehentges.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/img_3245.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3245\" width=\"785\" height=\"670\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Half of the crew headed over to Snappa&#8217;s for dinner and I, Jeanne, stayed on the boat with Patti, Doreen, Paul and Deb to try to finish up the rum and eat some fantastic chicken fajitas that Deb made.\u00a0 What a nice way to spend the last night on the boat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up early as we were planning to leave at 5:45 to catch maximum high tide.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was storming and very dark so it wasn&#8217;t safe to leave.\u00a0 We slept for another hour then readied the boat to get underway. Our plan was to head to the Sugar Loaf reefs near Matt Lowes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abacos-bahamas-march-5-12-2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IjHw-gx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northernbreezessailing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}