Eleuthera

We made it!!!   Sounds silly but we have been waiting for almost a week to get a proper weather window to make the open ocean journey of 60 miles from Little Harbour in the Abacos to Royal Island on the north side of Eleuthera.  I actually paid for a weather service to provide us a 3 day forecast for our crossing.   Funny they predicted today, Tuesday as the day to cross.   But we got up yesterday morning, checked the forecasts, looked out at the Atlantic, and said lets go.   We did, and it was a good decision.   So here we are.  I had to show the obligatory beach scenes.   The water is beautiful here.   Prettier than the Abacos.  

What I did not expect is to take photos of the houses in Spanish Wells.   This is a fishing village that has been the main staple of the Eleuthera economy for over a century.   It has the feel of Bermuda, not the Abacos or other Caribbean islands further south.    It is very proper,  British in ancestry, and very beautiful.

Now we are here.   It is all protected waters as we explore Eleuthera.   Then it is only 25 miles across Exuma Sound to get to the northern tip of the long chain of islands called the Exumas.   It is supposed to be even prettier there.   Not sure how, but that is what they say.  We do not have to cross any major open waters to explore all these islands.   Get your Google Earth out and look this up.   Cool.

 If you need to contact us, you can call our Bahamian phone # of 242-475-8677, or email us.   Our  deadline is that we will be back in the Abacos by the 4th of July.  

Marc