If you find yourself asking that question… it’s time to UP ANCHOR. We arrived here in Georgetown on November 20th, just in time to celebrate Thanksgiving. Then, well, we just never really stopped celebrating. Christmas, my birthday and New Year’s all flew by while Tideye hosted her first two rounds friends and family of the season. This holiday was packed with love, lobsters, and so.much.sand.

Celebrating Christmas on a sailboat with my folks on board has to be one of the brightest highlights of our cruising adventure. All of our annual holiday traditions were enhanced by invigorating sunrises and searing sunsets. While we never even picked up the anchor during their visit (totally embarrassing!), we spent each day getting our toes sandy on morning walks and showcasing one of our favorite cruising spots. And now that they have lived onboard with us at anchor, they have a much better understanding of what our day to day life feels like. Warm showers? Talk about a luxury!

We got the sheets drying on the lifelines just in time to grab our friends Val and Joel from the bench outside of Island Boy for a week of adventures we named BensXuma 2025. Fun isn’t a big enough word. Lazy River in Moriah Park, Go Fast Boat tour for pigs, dolphins, blue hole and blow hole, Junkanoo…what a week. Thanks so much for making the trek down you guys!

While we were neck deep in entertaining and celebrating, we also managed to get ourselves rooted in this beautiful community. We sailed down to Georgetown so early in the season with the hope of finding cruising families to share a few beach playdates with. We did. We really did. The kids have all found friends to defend treehouses with, giggle late into the night during sleepovers with, and spend endless hours splashing in the water with. And good news for Logan and me, the parents of boat kids are, you guessed it, boat adults! We have found some awesome friends here for us too – our crew is pretty dang happy.

So we aren’t technically residents, although most days it feels like it as we walk through town exchanging waves with our Exuma friends. I guess we are tourists – but the kind that can give directions and have a local grocery store loyalty card. But we can’t really call ourselves cruisers if we don’t cruise anywhere. It’s been a treat to set our anchor for so long in a protected harbor with so many friends and beach bars, but it’s time to head out exploring again. The Raggeds (an island chain of remote, mostly uninhabited islands with fish and lobsters aplenty) have been calling our name for a long time now, really since we cruised here a decade ago. The weather looks juicy so we upped anchor today to head “off the grid” for a while. Time to earn back our cruisers title. Yeehaw!