Eleuthera
This portion has been particularly hard to write. It is amazing the trauma that can be caused from happenstances.
Eleuthera has yet another all together different flavor than other Bahamian island groups. It definitely has more litter than we have seen on any of the other islands. It is an island of its own.
When we first arrived in Eleuthera, we briefly checked e-mail ($5- ½ hour!) and discovered that our friends Richard and Sandra had just flown into the island. We spent a wonderful day with them exploring the island and ended our visit with the most spectacular Italian dinner to be imagined.
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We were holed up in Governor's Harbor, Eleuthera for the blow from the low. The holding there is incredibly poor so we had laid out 125’ of chain and we stayed close to the boat for the first day. The next day we rented a car with Harold & Val on La Buena Vita to tour the island. Came back and our boat was not there!?!? It was not quite out of the harbor. Thank God for Mike & Kathy on CGull Seeker, and Bob & Megan on Destination who were on board re-securing our anchor. We did not venture far from the boat after that.
Looking back though our car ride, we did enjoy seeing the Preacher’s Cave where the Eleutherian Adventurers lived for two years when their ship was lost on the reef of the Devil’s Backbone. This is a large cave with holes to the sky. To imagine living there and living off the land for two years is mind-boggling.
One other noteworthy sight was the Glass Windo
w where the cobalt blue of the Atlantic Ocean meets the Bight of Eleuthera w
ith its myriad shades of emerald and turquoise. The first bridge was natural until the ocean eroded a hole in the iron rock. In 1991 a rogue wave picked up the man-made bridge and moved it 7’ to the west. In 1996, two people were washed from the bridge during a hurricane.
Also of interest was the surfer’s beach. It is on the East side and was discovered by a surfer in 1962. The beach, with its East view offers some of the greatest wave in the
Bahamas. When we 
were there the surf was breaking at 8 to 10 feet. The surfers have erected a beach hut, life guard stand on the beach and an observation hut half way up the 100’ hill.
Right now we are sitting in the rain in Spanish Wells at the north end of Eleuthera. We have gone into the marina to have some structural carpentry work done in the engine room. (We had a shelf pull away from the bulkhead on our trip up here.) Then we will cross back to Florida with a week or so after that, whenever the weather clears. Then it is about 2 more weeks back to Brunswick, followed by a quick (we hope) car trip to St. Pete. (The building with our storage unit that we had rented for the last 11 years as been sold and other folks moved our stuff and we don’t know how that has gone, so we’ll have to see…)
Eleuthera has yet another all together different flavor than other Bahamian island groups. It definitely has more litter than we have seen on any of the other islands. It is an island of its own.
When we first arrived in Eleuthera, we briefly checked e-mail ($5- ½ hour!) and discovered that our friends Richard and Sandra had just flown into the island. We spent a wonderful day with them exploring the island and ended our visit with the most spectacular Italian dinner to be imagined.
.
We were holed up in Governor's Harbor, Eleuthera for the blow from the low. The holding there is incredibly poor so we had laid out 125’ of chain and we stayed close to the boat for the first day. The next day we rented a car with Harold & Val on La Buena Vita to tour the island. Came back and our boat was not there!?!? It was not quite out of the harbor. Thank God for Mike & Kathy on CGull Seeker, and Bob & Megan on Destination who were on board re-securing our anchor. We did not venture far from the boat after that.
Looking back though our car ride, we did enjoy seeing the Preacher’s Cave where the Eleutherian Adventurers lived for two years when their ship was lost on the reef of the Devil’s Backbone. This is a large cave with holes to the sky. To imagine living there and living off the land for two years is mind-boggling.
One other noteworthy sight was the Glass Windo
w where the cobalt blue of the Atlantic Ocean meets the Bight of Eleuthera w
ith its myriad shades of emerald and turquoise. The first bridge was natural until the ocean eroded a hole in the iron rock. In 1991 a rogue wave picked up the man-made bridge and moved it 7’ to the west. In 1996, two people were washed from the bridge during a hurricane.Also of interest was the surfer’s beach. It is on the East side and was discovered by a surfer in 1962. The beach, with its East view offers some of the greatest wave in the
Bahamas. When we 
were there the surf was breaking at 8 to 10 feet. The surfers have erected a beach hut, life guard stand on the beach and an observation hut half way up the 100’ hill.Right now we are sitting in the rain in Spanish Wells at the north end of Eleuthera. We have gone into the marina to have some structural carpentry work done in the engine room. (We had a shelf pull away from the bulkhead on our trip up here.) Then we will cross back to Florida with a week or so after that, whenever the weather clears. Then it is about 2 more weeks back to Brunswick, followed by a quick (we hope) car trip to St. Pete. (The building with our storage unit that we had rented for the last 11 years as been sold and other folks moved our stuff and we don’t know how that has gone, so we’ll have to see…)
1 comment:
Wonderful photos, thanks for sharing. Bubba and Dianne Gleaton
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