“Are we going to the VOID!?” Charlie asked innocently with eyes as big as saucers. The Void is the empty space at the edge of a world in Minecraft. When I explained that we were sailing to islands with very few people and no restaurants, that was his logical conclusion. As we motored past the end of the Exuma chain to the elusive Raggeds with ZERO wind, it was hard to determine where the sea ended and the sky began and I had to agree. It looked like we were sailing off into The Void.

We spent ten days enjoying the seclusion and wildlife of the Jumentos and Raggeds. We used the light wind days to make our way to the southern most island in the chain, then worked our way back up to a few anchorages we didn’t want to miss. We fished. We hiked. We ran aground. We blew conch horns. We got mohawk haircuts. We even sailed…fast.

We set out of Elizabeth Harbor with our friends (now wonderfully close friends) on SV Flying Tiger. When we arrived in Hog Cay, we added two more family boats to our flotilla and really got the party started. Movie nights, kid hikes, beach bonfires, it couldn’t get much better. Sharing the experience with awesome sailing families was icing on the ragged cake.

Now we are back in Georgetown to re-provision. (The kids were snacking on peanuts with shells our last passage, our food supplies were almost depleted.) We need all the things: gas, food, laundry, rum. That cold front that blasted the south with snow is going to make it all the way down here – no snow of course, but some strong breeze. So we’ll stay put for a few days while we pull out the charts, look at the weather, and pick our next remote adventure.