Our cruise from Nassau to Chub Cay, South end of Berry Islands, was what we had envisioned our whole time as: easy three to six foot rollers, six seconds, wind light at our backs (SE). We had three hours of cruising bliss with nothing on the horizon in the North Atlantic Ocean.
We had initially planned to stop at Chub Cay after Bimini on our way to Nassau to pick up our first guest. Well, if you have been following our blog and have a good memory, you know that that did not happen. We went from Bimini to Freeport with generator issues, and our first guest flew into West End, Grand Bahama Island.
Highbourne was the Dent Island of the Exumas, Chub Cay very well might be the Dent Island of all of the Bahamas. At $4/ft, electricity charged per hour, water charged per gallon, we were sipping high tea at the Burj Al Arab. Oh wait, that was a different trip.
Chub Cay Marina has been rebuilt since Hurricane Matthew. It has Bellingham floating docks (first floating docks we’ve seen this trip, Tessa almost did not know what to do with the fenders! All non-floating docks here require high horizontal fenders), a ship store (lots of merchandise, limited grocery supplies), a bar and restaurant, pool, and rooms and houses you can rent.
Tessa was determined to get one last snorkeling adventure in, but we found no reef worth while in our gunkholing adventures.
Although we did find some wicked rocks. Wait, these are just a sampling of the rocks throughout the islands.
We had a couple great sunset dinners at the bar, while we waited for the wind to settle/clock around from the NE. 
We thought Bimini, where Ernest Hemingway used to like to fish, was the fishing capitol of the Bahamas. But Chub Cay we learned first hand is where all the fishermen from Florida come to Big Game fish. We were surround by Vikings, Bertram’s, Spencer’s, and Cabo’s – all sport fisher style boats with crew. Not much catching was going on, we only heard of one sailfish in the two days we were at the dock.