Wednesday, April 9th
We are on a mooring in beautiful Hope Town, Elbow Cay. I thought we had seen the best of the
islands, but Hope Town is outstanding.
We came over from the boat yard on Saturday morning with the incoming
tide. We had to snake around the shallow
waters to get to the entrance to Hope Town harbor and we will have to have the
incoming tide on our way out. But it is
worth the stop. There are miles and
miles of beautiful tranquil beaches on the Atlantic side and Easter egg colored
houses and shops in the settlement.
April is totally enjoying her freedom to hunt lizards and swim in the
surf on the beach. There are no big
resorts here and the atmosphere is very laid back. The harbor is like a hurricane hole, totally
protected on all sides, which is good because last night the winds started to
blow and haven’t let up today. We are
happy with the shaft work done at the boat yard. All seems to be better than ever.
Saturday, April 12th
We left Hope Town on Thursday with the early morning tide
headed for Man O Way Cay. The scoped out
possible anchorages along the cay and decided to head into the harbor. The entrance to the harbor was VERY narrow
and we lost any depth as soon as we got through the entrance. We checked out the East harbor, picked up a
mooring and dropped it again. It didn’t
look like it was well maintained. We
decided to head for the North harbor. We
grounded out on our way across – misread the markers. We eventually got clear and made it into the
North harbor and picked up a marina mooring. Unlike Hope Town, Man O War is mostly long
term residential. We walked the streets,
checked out the local museum and talked with the people there. Then we headed for Dock and Dine for fresh
Mahi Mahi.
Friday morning – again with the tide – we made our way out
of Man o War and sailed to Guana Cay.
Guana is supposed to have some of the best beautiful beaches in the
Abacos. We picked up Dive Guana’s
mooring, checked in with them and then headed out to tour the island. We found again a more residential cay. However, we did find Nippers Bar & Grill
located right on a beautiful beach on the Atlantic side. However, to April’s dismay, there are no
curly tail lizards in Guana Cay. Today
we had hoped to rent a cart and tour the cay.
It is too long to walk and we want to see the northern most end.
We are going to run out of islands soon. Treasure Cay and Green Turtle are next up to
the north. Then we will head towards an
area to wait for crossing weather.Sunday morning
We had a very wet but fun golf cart ride around Guana Gay. Ken, Francie, Skipper, Bill, April and I all in one cart was nothing but fun!
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