Mode of transportation is to either ride your bike or rent a golf cart to explore. Hmmmm??? We chose the golf cart. Steve and Peter are our tour guides.
One of the beaches on the east side of Green Turtle Cay. Beautiful water.
Here are some boats up on the hard. Hurricane straps installed to hold the boats down. In Florida they only put the straps on when they know a hurricane is coming thru. Perhaps they do it automatically here, as they know that sooner or later a hurricane or a tropical storm will come thru.
This was a pretty section of one of the roads to the north of the marina. It is a good 10 degrees cooler in the shade, vs the direct sunshine.
The main street in New Plymouth at the most southerly end of the island. All of the houses are painted in these pastel colors. And the road is only wide enough for 2 golf carts to meet and pass safely. There are cars and trucks on the island, but they seem to be few. Most popular transportation is the golf cart.
The back of the Bluff House Restaurant. No longer in use, closed. Looks like it took a lot of damage in a storm and no one has repaired it and it doesn't look like there are plans to do any repairs.
Peter is climbing up onto a stand at the very north end of Coco Bay which gives a view of both the Atlantic Ocean on one side and Coco Bay (Sea of Abaco) on the otherside. The vegetation is so thick that there is no way you could walk thru it.
Lunch out at the Lizard Bar and Grill half way between the marina and New Plymouth. Great lunch of snapper. The day is too much for Peter, he is trying to take a quick rest while he awaits lunch. Seems like he missed some sleep time during the night due to the lunar eclipse. Quite interesting. I have never seen a lunar eclipse. They talk about the blood red moon, and it truly turns a reddish color during the eclipse. The full covering of the moon takes about 1 hour. It seems to take an hour for the moon to become fully covered, then another hour where it remains covered, and then an hour for the coverage to wane and the moon shines thru again. I took a pillow and a cover out into the cockpit and was able to lay down and watch the process. It basically took 3 hours; from about 2 am to 5 am. An afternoon rest is definetely in the plans.
Very strange color to these clouds. The bottom of the clouds have a green color to them.
The motor on Steve and Linda's dinghy still isn't working well. They took the outboard to a local repair shop, however they had no way to test the outboard. Peter towed their dinghy down to the shop so they could put the motor on dinghy to test it. Here a dinghy is called a "dink".
The normal tide in this area is about 3 to 3.5 feet. After the lunar eclipse it seems to be even more extreme today. That is a very big step. Boaters here need to be half mountain goat.
Being as Steve and Linda had rented the golf cart for the outboard repairs they had it until 11 am. The original plan for the day was to get up early and go to the beach to watch the sunrise. Everyone was up early, however Mother Nature once again had a mid of her own. It was raining. No point going for the sunrise. As the morning wore on, the skies were clear and it was decided to go to New Plymouth for breakfast and a visit to the hardware store to find something to repair their broken dinghy oar. Success on both accounts. With full tummies we returned to the boats. Looks like some nasty weather could be coming in from the north. An ominous dark cloud is approaching.
Just checked, and that ominous cloud has passed us by. Now the skies are just a grey overcast sky. We had a few sprinkles but not enough to even close the hatches. Wonder what the rest of the day will bring.
There are signs around the marina that the "#1 Band in the Nation" will be playing at the patio tonight. We will need to check this out for sure. Who can resist the #1 Band in the Nation. Now, just not sure what nation they refer to? Probably the Bahamian nation, don't you think.
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