Tuesday, April 7 to Wednesday, April 8, 2009
What a nice place and what nice people—Alice Town, Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera! We didn’t mention in yesterday’s blog of the crab pot debacle that we also got to see all of the NCAA men’s basketball championship final game Monday night. Yay UNC!
Da Spott in Alice Town was where we spent the evening watching Carolina maintain that huge point spread against Michigan State to become the national champs. While there were some Bahamians at Da Spott who watched the game with us, most of the locals watched wrestling on the other TV. In the pictures below, you can see Da Spott in the daylight. Also, in the pictures are Robert, the wonderful bartender; Carl & Reva chatting with local landowner Bob about caves and Penny eves dropping; and Penny with Da Spott’s TV.
Another interesting place in Alice Town was Waters Edge Internet Café. In the pictures below you can see the Café’s owner, Double Dee, and her pet rooster named Roody. Roody was having a bad day—challenging every male person who entered the Café to a fight! To keep the customers from being assaulted by Roody, Dee either had to hold him or cage him. Apparently, Roody roams free on better days. In the picture of Carl, Reva, and Penny on the porch, you can see where Carl, Reva and Dee sat watching our “daring” crab pot disentanglement the previous day.
Here are some other shots of Alice Town. They include the Methodist Church, an interesting blue house, pretty yellow flowers, a little shack with laundry in the yard up on a cliff, a typical Alice Town street down to the Bay, John at the intersection of Main and Cambridge Streets, and two pictures of the lovely lavender laundry. The laundry, by-the-way, was very nice but had no hot water and only two driers with heat. It seems that the propane had not been delivered, so no hot water and only the two electric driers would actually dry.
While we waited at the laundry, we got to see the school kids file by on their way to fly home-made kites. In Alice Town the kids are as friendly as the adults—most of them spoke and waved as they passed by us. Here are the pictures.
Finally, here are pictures of Hatchet Bay Pond. You can see Caribbean Soul and Three Belles moored up near each other. Three Belles is such a beautiful boat, we had to snap and share these pictures. In a couple of pictures you can see the very narrow cut that connects Hatchet Bay Pond inside with Eleuthera Banks outside.
On Thursday, April 9th, we will head out from this protected little harbour pond through the narrow cut and sail north to Current Cut.
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