Hope Town

                                                                                            Hope Town

  We stayed in Hope Town, Elbow Cay, Abacos for a week (Thurs 4/3 - 4/10) ... a very lovely harbor with great ocean beaches and a beautiful lighthouse.  We were joined by our friends on Wishbone after the had their out put shaft changed at Marsh Harbor Boat Yard.  Both of our dogs loved the ocean beaches as much as their owners.  Francie and I went for a bike ride over most of Elbow Cay stopping for BBQ ribs at "PaPaNasty's", great name, eh?  We also enjoyed going to "Wine Down Sip Sip" for beer, pizza and skype on the internet.

    Thursday at 0700 we left on a high tide for Man O War Cay to check it out.   Another very beautiful cay with lovely homes and great grocery stores.  We had lunch at Dock and Dine, another great restaurant, but MOW Cay is a dry cay with no beer.  We decided to leave on Friday for Batelco in Marsh Harbor to once again try to get our phone Hot Spot working right.

     Once again we left on a high tide as both MOW and Hope Town harbor entrance depths at low tide are not compatible with our draft. Upon arrival at Marsh Harbor we filled with fuel, water and  arrived at the Batelco office as it was opening.  Our customer service rep, Caroline,  was happy to see us and help.  Of course the phone started working as soon as we entered the office, but she had been through enough problems with us to know that there was still a problem.  Caroline and the manager exchanged the phone, battery and a new sim card to make the system work. As of this message (KOW) everything is working fine.  They also gave us some credit for all the trouble we had been through. 

     We sailed from Marsh Harbor in the afternoon for Great Guana Cay to meet up with Bill & Barb on Wishbone and do more exploring on Guana. Cay.  On Saturday 4/12/14  the four of us with 2 dogs rented a golf cart to tour the cay in the rain. It is fortunate that we only rented for 4 hours as In less than 3 hours we went as far as we could travel on the Cay, plus had lunch and went to the grocery store.  It rained more Saturday than all the rest of the time we have been in the Bahamas.

     We hope to go around the "Whale" either this afternoon or Monday and head for Green Turtle Cay and check out the surrounding Cays before heading back to the states.