It’s been a few weeks since my last post – sorry about that! We’ve been busy with our guests. Caroline joined us on Feb. 22 and we decided to leave George Town and head up to Black and White Cay (at the north end of Great Exuma Island). This is a very nice area with pigs, a blue hole and a great restaurant. We did lots of swimming and snorkelling and saw some nice coral around the blue hole.
We left this area on Tuesday Feb. 26 intending to stop at the Marina at Emerald Bay for a night before heading back to George Town to pick up Bill and Donalda. Well, we got to the marina and decided to stay until Friday – it was nice to have a real shower and to swim in a fresh water pool! It also had free laundry!
Donalda and Bill flew in on Thursday, February. 28 and met us at the marina. Since then, we’ve traveled to George Town to get more food and then we headed to Conception Cay. The wind was stronger this time so we ended up snorkelling a different coral area which was really good. We saw lots of fish and 2 turtles!
We’re now at Long Island, in Thompson Bay. We rented a car yesterday and drove about 2/3rd of the Island. It was a great day, exploring this very interesting island. We visited a little museum and a very deep (200m) blue hole. We had lunch in Clarence Town at the Flying Fish Marina (very fancy place!). The restaurant had some hot sauce on the table that was locally made. So we decided to go to the little village where the hot sauce was made to buy some. Well that was not as easy as it sounds! We drove north and found a nice little place called “Da Spot” and had ice cream and a great chat with the owner. The place was a restaurant/bar/beach/ etc, etc. Mark asked the owner, Steven Jolly, about the hot sauce maker and sure enough, he knew where they were located. We head out again on our mission for the hot sauce and boy was it a journey. We went through one gate (to keep the goats in), drove along a rutted, sand path (road is too nice a word for this thing), opened a second gate and then honked the horn as we came close to the house (that was the directions on the sign leading to the house). This very nice lady opened up for us and we got our hot sauce!
We’re heading back to George Town tomorrow (Friday, March 8). Caroline flies home on March 9 and Donalda and Bill leave on March 11. The time has gone by so quickly – we’re been busy and having loads of fun!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 