Tuesday
1514 -With the new year comes a new day and lady luck came once again to Team Audax last night… the scene of the crime: The Isle de Capri Casino in Port Lucaya. Seemingly not able to lose, the excursion essentially managed to fund our entire stay thus far in the Bahamas and also not a small number of rum punches as well!! Happy New Year from Team Audax. A bit strange to be drinking Starbuck’s coffee at a Sheraton Hotel lobby with CSPAN playing in the background. Americanized somewhat but beautiful nonetheless Port Lucaya gets a thumbs up from me. A day of rest, recovery and relaxation that included boiled fish cuisine and shopping for t-shirts at the local bazarre. Tomorrow a day of preparation and departure assuming cooperative weather for our next leg across the Northwest Providence Channel and into the Berry Islands.
An aside: You know that tingly feeling you get inside when your soul is touched by something special? If you can spare the 6 minutes and 46 seconds please click on this link below to have your heart and spirit uplifted by this YouTube video entitled: Christmas in the Trenches -1914 www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9coPzDx6tA

Monday
1835 – An anchor in Port Lucaya. A short yet sweet sail of 5 miles today arriving just in time it seems for the New Years Eve celebration. Boat cleaning in the morning, a run this afternoon, lights strung upon our boom for the festivities, morale very solid and the transition to island living setting in. No cell phones, limited internet, what is one to do? Change can be good but not always easy and Team Audax seems to be making the transition as best we can.

Photo Album of Xanadu and Port Lucaya with the cover shot being the stage Jordi and John danced the New Year in on last night!!!!