With winds forecast to go more southerly and to increase in velocity, we thought it would be too rolly to remain at Emerald Rock so we opted to seek better protection by moving to the north mooring field at Warderick Wells. But before relocating, we went ashore to the beach 50 yards from us and walked up the hill to the loyalists ruins. En route we encountered some pretty red flowers that resembled a clematis that must have had tasty nectar as it attracted several large pigeon like birds and a hummingbird. It then took us 1.5 hours to move the boat about 0.25 miles to the north mooring field as we had to go west, north, and then south traveling about 5 miles in order to circumvent shallows that would have Juno aground. Once secure to our new mooring ball #8, just north of the ship wreck we’d snorkeled yesterday, we hiked up to the blow holes but the tide wasn’t high enough for the holes to be blowing. After lunch we decided to chill out on a beach under our beach umbrella in the lee of a small cay, protected from the wind that was blowing about 15 -18 knots out of the SE. Back on Juno around 5 pm, Sally and I drift snorkeled the ship wreck on the incoming tide and we got our exercise when it came time to turn around and swim against the 3 knots of current back to Juno but we were rewarded as we saw a large sea turtle grazing on the grassy bottom just beside Juno.
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| Sally atop Boo Boo Hill in Warderick Wells |
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| North mooring field at Warderick Wells |
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| Relaxing on our private beach. |
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