Day 166, Thursday December 5th, Hope Town
Well last night was not a fun anchorage, so we left Guana
key! Headed to Hopetown for the upcoming
music festival. We had to time our
arrival with high tide as the entrance to the channel is shallow so we needed a
couple extra feet the tide could offer.
We had a beautiful sail for about 2 hours before reaching the entry
which was a breeze to find and follow the navigational instructions. The town was adorable with coloured houses
all very neat and a candy cane striped lighthouse that is still lit with
kerosene. One of the last of its kind. We can go visit the official lighting which
is on the agenda over the next couple of nights. We are on a mooring ball which costs $20 a
night but has some internet and we are welcome on the resort property so can
use the pool and laundry facilities etc.
Not a bad deal for $20 bucks.
We head to town to have a look around and rent some
bikes. We decide to circumnavigate the
idland which is about 5 miles long. As
we are walking the street to the rental shop a coconut comes flying downward
and smashes on the road, hard enough to break the husk and the inner shell and
it bounces around shooting coconut milk all over. Makes you realize if it landed on your head,
you could die. A horrible way to go, but
it was a hard sounding hit when it landed.
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| dead sandollar on teh beach |
Biking was great. We
went to the southern most point which is Tahiti beach. We were close to low tide so the sand spits
started appearing. We found a few sand
dollars, some sort of worm like animal and some baby conch that had the animal
inside still. We stopped along the way
to admire both the sea of Abaco and the Atlantic. We then went to the northern most point and
were tired by the time we were done as the island actually had some hills on it
so the heart rate got a workout.
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| baby conch with eyeballs |
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| tahiti beach |
We met up with Lorraine and Julian for dinner at Captain
Jacks where there was a trivia contest being hosted. We got second or third place but they did not
award it to us. Some sort of
oversight. We will forgive them for
it. Had our kids been younger we would
have done better, but we did not score well on some of the Disney
questions. As we finished our dinner the
town went black. Electrical service shut
down. A few generators kicked on, but
overall the rest of the evening there was no electricity on the island. Sounded like a regular occurrence but a bit
weird for us North Americans.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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