Day 153, Friday November 22

Day 153, Friday November 22

Beautiful flowers along the road

Today is our day to explore Green Turtle Cay.  We head to land and see Toby first thing.  He offers us a ride to town, but cannot find the rental lady.  We grab a map and decide to start walking and will hop aboard with them if we cross paths.  Town is about 4 miles away, but it is a beautiful day.  We get offered a ride from “Kevin” who lives on the island and he is heading to the dump.   We pass John and Rosemary walking along the opposite direction (what a small world as we bump into our fellow sailors).  Kevin is a fellow Canadian and invites us to come visit him if we are in Coco Bay area.  We hop off and continue walking along.  Soon Toby and Joanne pick us up and drive us the remaining 2 miles. 

New Plymouth is the name of the town and it is full of coloured houses all built close to each other with very little yards.  It is quite quaint.  Not a fishing village at all, just servicing tourists, but not flashy at all either.  There is a sculpture park that has some historical information about the settling of the Bahamas, and there is a museum.  The museum is closed for lunch until 1:00 so we head down to the waterfront to have our picnic lunch we have brought.  We wander through the grocers and hardware store, and on to the Harvey’s restaurant in search of an ice cream.  No luck.  Back to the museum as it is now 1:10 but unfortunately it is still closed.  There is an open sign there, and a lovely porch to await the tardy employee/volunteer.  We wait for about 30 minutes and give up and start walking back to the harbour. 

Along the Atlantic side of Cay

We stop at a boat yard to enquire about summer storage for the boat and are surprised to find out that they have a waiting list 30 boats long which will take many years to go through.  It is a great boatyard and has all the hurricane straps to tie down the boat in the event of high winds.  Interesting how at least half the boats are of Canadian registry.

We continue on our way and we don’t walk far when we are picked up in a golf cart that John and Rosemary are in with their tour guide who is the captain of the boat docked next to them.  We spend the next hour at a beautiful beach, and touring the sites via golf cart.

We get back to the boat and spend a quiet evening.  Julie suffers from a headache and has a nap, but struggles to shake the headache.  No socializing for us tonight.  We do have a nice chat with Kevin on skype and play a game of kings cribbage.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson