Hello everyone and Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
We hope the sun is out at home for all of you getting your first glimpse of summer! We are back in Green Turtle Cay taking advantage of free docking for a few nights. Great special here that they will give you credit in their restaurant and pub equal to your docking fee so that makes the docking free in our eyes!
We went grocery shopping yesterday and the best stores here for that are in New Plymouth so Patrick drove me in the dinghy across the island from White Sound to Black Sound so we could be at the grocery stores when the mail boat arrived with fresh produce for everyone! He makes a wonderful taxi driver, don't you think?
After we made our purchases and ate as many grapes and apples as we could get our hands on, we went to visit a small shop where a local man named Vertrum Lowe builds model ships. He is a very famous Bahamian who has a prosperous yet humble business building model sail boats and replicas of the old sponging ships used in the Bahamas when the sponge industry was a boom. We admired his work for quite a while and he was very kind to let us take some photos.
We might have to go back and buy something for our home since we were so impressed with his work.
Earlier in the week, we left Hopetown and the beautiful marina called Hopetown Hideaways, and went to Man O' War Cay for a night. It is a beautiful place where the local businesses are mostly boat building and repair as well as a sail shop that sews handmade bags of all shapes and sizes. The women there work from 7 am until 4pm making bags. Emily was drawn to this place like a fly to the flame! We had a lot of fun shopping and talking with them about their business.
The other excitement in Man-O-War was the sea life. We were visited by turtles, dolphins and rays (oh my!) Emily told me after she saw the dolphin swimming around the dock that it was "the best day of her life"! So glad she didn't move in with the Pearsons and Feathers as she planned!!
We hope the sun is out at home for all of you getting your first glimpse of summer! We are back in Green Turtle Cay taking advantage of free docking for a few nights. Great special here that they will give you credit in their restaurant and pub equal to your docking fee so that makes the docking free in our eyes!
We went grocery shopping yesterday and the best stores here for that are in New Plymouth so Patrick drove me in the dinghy across the island from White Sound to Black Sound so we could be at the grocery stores when the mail boat arrived with fresh produce for everyone! He makes a wonderful taxi driver, don't you think?
After we made our purchases and ate as many grapes and apples as we could get our hands on, we went to visit a small shop where a local man named Vertrum Lowe builds model ships. He is a very famous Bahamian who has a prosperous yet humble business building model sail boats and replicas of the old sponging ships used in the Bahamas when the sponge industry was a boom. We admired his work for quite a while and he was very kind to let us take some photos.
Earlier in the week, we left Hopetown and the beautiful marina called Hopetown Hideaways, and went to Man O' War Cay for a night. It is a beautiful place where the local businesses are mostly boat building and repair as well as a sail shop that sews handmade bags of all shapes and sizes. The women there work from 7 am until 4pm making bags. Emily was drawn to this place like a fly to the flame! We had a lot of fun shopping and talking with them about their business.
The other excitement in Man-O-War was the sea life. We were visited by turtles, dolphins and rays (oh my!) Emily told me after she saw the dolphin swimming around the dock that it was "the best day of her life"! So glad she didn't move in with the Pearsons and Feathers as she planned!!
We are off to Powell Cay today to meet some friends and anchor for a couple of days. We will be back
after the Holiday weekend.
Love to all,
The Welsh Family
Happy Belated birthday Patrick! What an exciting place to have a birthday! We are loving your posts and look so forward to reading each one. What beautiful places you are visiting. Isn't it wonderful when you meet nice families? So glad for you all!
ReplyDeleteWe are missing you here and can't wait to see you when you are home! Keep the blogs coming...
Love to all - The Howard's
4 days and counting. Can't wait! Started to accumulate supplies. Let us know what else you need.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful!! Sounds like you are all having the time of your lives! Enjoy every minute--but not too much! MIssed you in NH this weekend...So beautiful, but still not as nice as you have it! Can't wait to read about your new adventures! Love and miss all of you--Yes, you too Jay! :-) xoxo The Goolgasians
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Elmwood!!
ReplyDeleteLove the photo of the sea turtle - Wow!! Dolphins swimming around the dock too - you really are in paradise. That is amazing!!
Miss you all!
Margie and Molly