Day 167, Friday December 6th, Hopetown
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| Bay at Hopetown with lighthouse in background |
We got an early start today as we still had the bikes rented
until 1 o’clock. We had covered most of
the island yesterday so decided to head over to the peninsula that houses the
candy striped lighthouse. We went only
about 2 kms. and came to a dead end. We
double back to see if we had missed the road, but had not. We found someone to ask and he informed us
that you can only get to the lighthouse by boat. Oh well, guess we won’t get there by bike. We headed back to town and found a few roads
to explore with a few shops and the museum.
We returned the bikes a bit early and did some bumbling around for
Christmas stuff, but the pickings were very slim.
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| Dawson at the art centre |
We spend the afternoon poolside at the Hopetown Inn and
Marina resort. Reading and
socializing. Dawson finds a bean bag
toss game and the competition is on with Rosemary and John. Team J (Julie and John) take the title. The resort manages the mooring ball we have
taken and it entitles us to use the property which is great. For $20 a night we have internet (bad
internet), and use of the pool and laundry facilities, and games. The guests here are paying $1500 a week so
our $20 is a deal.
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| Beach view |
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| John and Rosemary for the great bean bag toss |
Today is the start of the Hopetown country music festival
that we have come to see. We have an
early dinner so we can get over to the venue for 7:30. The music starts promptly at 8, and John and
Rosemary have secured a table for the group of us that has been
connecting. The seats are excellent and
the music is good. The performers are
the song writers and have all penned number 1 C&W hits. We would not normally embrace country music,
but entertainment is scarce and the event is free except for a donation. The entertainers are actually songwriters and
supposedly the cream of the crop of country writers. Some of them are better singers than others,
but overall it was excellent. The venue
was outdoors, and poolside, no bugs and about a 22 degree temperature. Doesn’t get any better than that. We stay for the full show which features the
Bartender getting up and performing. One
of the song writes is from Elbow Cay so has a good feel for the talent on the
island. We are back to the boat by
midnight, quite late for us.
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| Turtle that circles our boat |
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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