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george town, bahamas

erin

07 Feb 2026 — 2 min read

Ah... George Town - lots of boats, tons of kids, rules like an HOA. I have a love/hate relationship with George Town, but the girls love it here.

It has been cold in the Bahamas! It got so cold that the temperature inside our boat got down to 68 degrees. We don't have enough warm clothes and blankets for this kind of weather. I did a lot of baking to keep warm. It was the first time since we've been on the boat that we fogged up the windows.

We need good weather to get further south from here, so we've been watching the weather very, very closely. There have been a few times we thought the weather would be perfect, but then the forecast changed and we decide to stay put to wait for more comfortable conditions. Fingers crossed the weather gets it's act together soon so we can get going.

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