Saturday, March 5, 2022

Green Turtle, Great Guana, and the Abacos

After visiting Pensacola Cays for a couple of days and letting the winds subside a little, we decided to move on to Green Turtle Cay.  This has to be another of my favorite stope in the Abacos,


 We took a slip at the Green Turtle Club for 2 nights so we could explore a little.  We also had to clarify the situation with our Covid Tests.  Although we arrived on the 18th, rules changes on the 20th requiring a 5-day test.  It was 2-days before that.  We did a self test at 2-days, but apparently it had to by by a Bahamas health department.  So we just went ahead and did a 5-day test in New Plymouth at the clinic.  This seemed to satisfy everyone.

It was sad to see that New Plymouth is still recovering from Dorian, but happy that progress was being made.  So many of the building s and homes that had been there over 100 years were still in dis-repair or gone.


The Bluff House is nearly back up and running.  the beach bar, pictured above and left was open and the beach restored.  The boat docks had been re-built but not yet open.  I think they are waiting on power and water service.

The anchorage/mooring field was quiet with only a few boat in what is typically busy.  Green Turtle Club was quite busy, being one of the few marinas that is up and running.

After a great 2-day stay, we moved on to Great Guana.


Great Guana Cay

We anchored in Fisher's Bay near Delia Cay for the obligatory trip in to Grabbers and Nippers.  Both are up and running.  Our crew enjoyed a few drinks and the spectacular view from Nippers, and a couple of their "special drinks"!

Sunset at Grabbers













             









            

Hopetown

Hopetown was our next stop.  The town has made a pretty good recovery after Hurricane Dorian, but there is still work ongoing and obvious signs of recovery.  It isn't what it used to be, but given a couple years with no major hits, I am sure it will be back.

The marina was open and was about the only restaurant fully open,  Others seemed to have limited service.  We stayed a night on a mooring, had lunch at the marina, and wandered through the streets some.  The lighthouse is operational, but still some repairs ongoing.


Tahiti Beach

From Great Guana, we moved a short distance south to Tahiti Beach - a wonderful little beach island that comes and goes with the tide.  We had a fantastic beach day with food and drink from the "Thirsty Cuda" which anchors off the beach.  The drinks were reasonable and the food excellent and great value by Bahamas standards!








Salty had a great beach day and was thoroughly exhausted when we got back to the boat - but what a way to spend the day!









Little Harbor and Pete's Pub

South again and our next stop was Little Harbor and Pete's Pub.  On the way, we spent the night at Linyards key made a stop at Snake Key to make the spectacular dinghy ride up into the mangroves along the creek that runs several miles inland



Pete's Pub is the home of a brass castings foundry and wonderful pub.  It was very quiet as they did not anticipate opening ......but they saw our "crowd" and opened everything up.  We had a great time, great food, spent a little in the gift shop etc.

We also have friends that have a house overlooking the bay and they had (jokingly said) get a photo of your crew drinking a beer on our porch.


Hey - who can resist that!




If we could have found the key, we would probably have drunk Tom Schlinkert's beer too!!
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Thank you Tom!
Midnight Sun and TraSea from Chateau Schlinkert







We love Pete's Pub!



The following morning we said farewell to our crew and they headed to Marsh Harbour to fly home.  We set out on a great 55 mile sail south towards Spanish Wells.  We anchored for the night just short of Spanish Wells in the very protected Royal Harbor, and made our plans to sit out a blow in Spanish Well for the next few days.




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