Tropic of Cancer Beach, our First Real Grounding, and Heading North

We slept well as winds were light and on Tuesday morning we enjoyed doing yoga in the shade of the pine trees at the Tropic of Cancer Beach and a brief swim.  Then at dead low tide, we turned Juno north towards Moriah Cay sailing across the shallows and as luck would have it, we ran aground. The southerly wind pushed us further into the sandbar but after a brief hair raising minute or two of revving the engine hard in reverse, Juno was floating once again. In hindsight, our grounding may have been Juno’s subtle way of stating she didn’t want to head north. Swells rolling in from the east caused at the entrance to Moriah Cay caused us to skip Moriah Cay entirely and instead we anchored off Crab Cay off of Great Exuma in anticipation of a strong westerly wind at night.