The Little Pig Mooring!
We are in the heart of the Exumas, where a plethora of cays and islets merge together to offer an abundance of shelters. Each cove, each beach, each rock could be the motive for a stopover, but you have to choose! So, to make the most of it, we sometimes make three stops a day, slaloming in, with as little as 4 inches / 10 centimeters of water below the hulls of our catamaran. The colors that we discover while sailing are just crazy: I think we could invent adjectives just for these islands at the end of the world!
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Publié le
24/05/2022
Par
Jonathan Jagot
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184
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In the shallow and transparent waters of the Exumas, you’ll likely have stingrays flitting around at your feet! But why is the palette of blues so exceptional in the Bahamas? Science tells us that the blue color comes from the fact that the blue light present in the sun’s rays is reflected by the water, while the other colors are absorbed, and this at different speeds depending on the depth of the bottom - it will filter the colors. When there is little water, the spectrum of red and yellow colors remains present and adds a wide range of tones, intensified by the quality (transpar…