The Wavy Side of Exuma

Days 74 Morning- The Wavy Side of the Exumas

On Friday the 13th (Day 73) we joined the George Town Public Library for $3. It really is more like a book exchange than a regular library. We took in a load of old, read books and brought back a new load of old, unread books. Then we spent the rest of Friday the 13th lounging on the beach reading—fun, fun!

This is Saturday morning, February 14 and we decided to go exploring. We packed a couple of those books in the backpack and dinghied over to the next beach south of us—Sand Dollar Beach. We weren’t exactly sure where the path leading over the island to the ocean side (Exuma Sound) was, so we motored close to an anchored sail boat and asked the lady hanging out laundry on the lifelines for directions. She assured us that we were heading in the right direction—“Just look for the blue bench on the beach,” she said.
We pulled the dinghy ashore at the brown picnic table, which— on closer inspection— had bits of worn, blue paint around the edges. Anyway, it was the right spot so we followed the sandy trail that had been carved out of the vegetation by some nice folks with machetes. Here is what we saw:

We are looking north with the “wavy side” or the ocean side on the right and the harbour side on the left with anchored boats and George Town in the distance.


John is studying the limestone cliffs wondering if we (mainly me) could make it down the 30 some feet to the wavy beach below.

This is proof that we made it down the cliffs and that we enjoyed sunning and reading on the beach there—what a lovely day!

John stood in the surf and took this picture of the waves crashing ashore. You can see the limestone cliffs we slid down to get to the beach. Climbing back up was really the bigger challenge. When we were ready to go back to the harbour side, athletic John sprinted right up but the less-than-graceful Penny struggled up two steps sliding back one until she made it back to the top.

Here are some more views of Elizabeth Harbour. We can’t tell you which of these boats is ours because they all look pretty much the same from here. Our anchorage may be just to the right of these pictures anyway. Perhaps you can tell why folks say that this is a cruiser’s paradise!