Our trip up the Eleuthera coast has been wonderful. We started out anchored off of Powell Point and then made our way to Tarpum Bay on Sunday where we went ashore to s
ee the sites. There is an interesting castle there that we found out was built by a transplanted British (I think) artist of some note. It is abandoned now as the gentleman died a few years ago, but is still quite interesting in a great “artsy” sort of way. There was even a resident goat hanging out in one of the doorways. Supposedly there are several interesting art galleries in Tarpum, but we never found them. Instead we had lunch at a local spot after walking through the town and listening to all of the very loud and boisterous Sunday worship services that were going 
on on most every street corner. It seemed as though they were each trying to outdo the service next door and the music and sermons made a very interesting soundtrack as we walked among the rundown, overgrown old houses. I’ve never seen so many churches in one small place in all my life.
Next we moved on to Governor’s Harbour where we found a grocery that actually had some fresh – and very expensive – fresh produce. Yeah – fresh salad for both lunch and dinner! We had had fun chit-chatting with the locals in Tarpum Bay but Governor’s Harbour 
didn’t seem quite as friendly. We were going to stop the next day in Hatchett Bay and maybe take a walk over to Alice Town, but the entrance to Hatchett Bay really was quite narrow and it didn’t seem worth the effort when we got right up to it. So we moved on to Gregory Town to anchor for the night. We pulled into a little spot just north of the entrance to Gregory Town called 
Annie Bight and are, at this writing having a great time here. On the shore of Annie Bight there are four houses, one of which has the big “goombay” smiley face painted on the roof. There were some folks in this house that came out on the front porch as soon as we came in to wave and take pictures. The next day a guy, Tom-from-Baltimore, swam out to the boat and said that the ladies in the “smiley-face-house” wanted to invite us to a Cinco-de-Mayo” party the next evening. The winds have been cooperating and look to stay the same for the next few days so we decided to stay over an extra day for the party. What a treat! It turns out that three of the four houses are regularly rented out by folks who have been coming here on a
nd off for almost thirty years. The folks who threw the party are on one of their regular “girl-trip-getaways” and some of them run beach-type tourist stores in the Sarasota area. Very, very nice people and the party was full of fun, good food, local folks, and great conversation. One of the women had a diving mask that has a built in video camera and she and Tom-from-Baltimore had been out that day taking videos of the Lion Fish that, we understand, are taking over the local sea environment. They got some incredible shots of these fish and the way they just sit and stare at you as you come toward them. It’s almost as though they are waiting for you to get close enough to be devoured. No fear at all. We are having such a good time here that we have decided to stay on another day. One of the women we met last night has a little lunch place up the road, The Laughing Lizard, where we will go a bit later to check out and, now that we know one of the end houses in Annie Bight is vacant we are going to take a walk along their seashore property into town. Having a great time. Wish all of you reading this could be here with us to share the fun. More later.
didn’t seem quite as friendly. We were going to stop the next day in Hatchett Bay and maybe take a walk over to Alice Town, but the entrance to Hatchett Bay really was quite narrow and it didn’t seem worth the effort when we got right up to it. So we moved on to Gregory Town to anchor for the night. We pulled into a little spot just north of the entrance to Gregory Town called 
Annie Bight and are, at this writing having a great time here. On the shore of Annie Bight there are four houses, one of which has the big “goombay” smiley face painted on the roof. There were some folks in this house that came out on the front porch as soon as we came in to wave and take pictures. The next day a guy, Tom-from-Baltimore, swam out to the boat and said that the ladies in the “smiley-face-house” wanted to invite us to a Cinco-de-Mayo” party the next evening. The winds have been cooperating and look to stay the same for the next few days so we decided to stay over an extra day for the party. What a treat! It turns out that three of the four houses are regularly rented out by folks who have been coming here on a
nd off for almost thirty years. The folks who threw the party are on one of their regular “girl-trip-getaways” and some of them run beach-type tourist stores in the Sarasota area. Very, very nice people and the party was full of fun, good food, local folks, and great conversation. One of the women had a diving mask that has a built in video camera and she and Tom-from-Baltimore had been out that day taking videos of the Lion Fish that, we understand, are taking over the local sea environment. They got some incredible shots of these fish and the way they just sit and stare at you as you come toward them. It’s almost as though they are waiting for you to get close enough to be devoured. No fear at all. We are having such a good time here that we have decided to stay on another day. One of the women we met last night has a little lunch place up the road, The Laughing Lizard, where we will go a bit later to check out and, now that we know one of the end houses in Annie Bight is vacant we are going to take a walk along their seashore property into town. Having a great time. Wish all of you reading this could be here with us to share the fun. More later.
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