Sarah baked some cookies in the morning and took a few to three young kids on the boat next to us. We’d met them at the grocery store in Governor’s Harbor and they were stuck mending their jib that had blown apart in the squall of March 27th. Once ashore, we walked to the eastern shore beach and back then hitch-hiked a ride to the Hatchett Bay Cave - an extensive in-land cave with a labyrinth of passages extending for several hundred yards accessed from an opening in the middle of a field. Ignoring advice to hire a cave guide, we entered the cave alone with our flashlight and one head lamp and appeared to be the only ones in the cave. After about15 minutes of working our way deep underground down a ladder and along passageways that would occasionally open to a large rooms with fat stalagmites and stalactites, Sarah lost her nerve wondering how we’d find our way out should our flashlight batteries die, so we turned around before making it to the end of the cave.
We then walked to an inland sea horse pond fellow cruisers had told us about where we snorkeled and saw many 3-4 inch sea horses nestled among the weeds - a new first for us and a nudibranch - an interesting slug like thing with blue antennae. Unfortunately dinner at the Back Porch restaurant, supposedly the best food on the island, never panned out as the restaurant never opened.
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