It's January 30 and we are at Ocean Reef Yacht club. These feet tell you I'm at Port Lucaya Beach soaking in some rays and reading. The water is sooooo turquoise and the para sailors are in the sky, sea dos buzzing around, Bahamian ladies calling out, "Do your braids lady, jewelry?" A Star Fish washed up on shore and a bunch of people crowded around it on the shore. On with the Blog.
Anthony is standing on the dock at the resort on South Bimini Island we have just sailed across the Gulf Stream from Miami and we are now in the Bahamas, it's about Dec. 1. We didn't know where to go we called on the VHF and a young Bahamian man guided us into here. It was are really narrow opening, only about a foot on either side of the boat. We stayed for a bit and walked around a bit but then we had to go to immigration and customs because we were in a new country and the offices were on North Bimini Island.
So out we go and down a shallow entrance into the anchorage at North Bimini. These are docks at a marina there that is closed. It wasn't busy season so a lot of the stores, food bars, marinas were closed.
When we kayaked ashore with our boat registration, dinghy registration and passports, heading for customs and immigration we met this fellow who had a boat full of conch and lobster. I paid for a conch and a couple of lobster and he said he would but them in a bag after he had cleaned them and toss them in our kayak. So off we go to the offices. It was a very small island, only about a km wide and 10 km long or so. There were two main streets running on each shore of the island. Customs was in the blue building to the west and Immigration was the yellow, flat building at the other end of the street, about a 5 min. walk.
Now we are in Alice Town.
This is main street.
You could rent gulf carts but we walked around the island, instead. Some of the vehicles were golf carts, there were a few cars and two huge double cab trucks. Most of the vehicles were the golf cart style. The tram, or city bus was a huge golf cart with benches at the back for the students that rode it.
I didn't get a very close picture of this young boy but he said his mother wanted chicken for supper and he had a live chicken in a box in his basket on the front of his bike and his friend was sitting on his cross bar. Fresh chicken tonight.
I guess this guy didn't make it into the harbour. This was along the beach.
Me...walking the beach. It was very beautiful and I got a pile of bites from.....sand lice or noseeums or what I don't know. I never saw the bug, only the itchy bites.
Paradise.
This little store wasn't open. I loved the signs all over the building.
Here's the Immigration Office. It cost us $300 to purchase a cruising pass for a year in the Bahamas.
There's the Tram Stop. We didn't ride it because everything was within walking distance.
This was one of the schools. There were three schools on the island. All the students were wearing uniforms.
Coming back to the boat and the moon is up. Our lobsters and conch were in our kayak so there's our fresh supper. The conch was too chewy, I needed to pound it more and the lobster was absolutely fabulous.
This was a great fixer upper for us. I love derelict buildings. They are so interesting.
Another empty marina.
It's January 30 and we are at Ocean Reef Yacht club. These feet tell you I'm at Port Lucaya Beach soaking in some rays and reading. The water is sooooo turquoise and the para sailors are in the sky, sea dos buzzing around, Bahamian ladies calling out, "Do your braids lady, jewelry?" A Star Fish washed up on shore and a bunch of people crowded around it on the shore. On with the Blog.
Anthony is standing on the dock at the resort on South Bimini Island we have just sailed across the Gulf Stream from Miami and we are now in the Bahamas, it's about Dec. 1. We didn't know where to go we called on the VHF and a young Bahamian man guided us into here. It was are really narrow opening, only about a foot on either side of the boat. We stayed for a bit and walked around a bit but then we had to go to immigration and customs because we were in a new country and the offices were on North Bimini Island.
So out we go and down a shallow entrance into the anchorage at North Bimini. These are docks at a marina there that is closed. It wasn't busy season so a lot of the stores, food bars, marinas were closed.
When we kayaked ashore with our boat registration, dinghy registration and passports, heading for customs and immigration we met this fellow who had a boat full of conch and lobster. I paid for a conch and a couple of lobster and he said he would but them in a bag after he had cleaned them and toss them in our kayak. So off we go to the offices. It was a very small island, only about a km wide and 10 km long or so. There were two main streets running on each shore of the island. Customs was in the blue building to the west and Immigration was the yellow, flat building at the other end of the street, about a 5 min. walk.
Now we are in Alice Town.
This is main street.
You could rent gulf carts but we walked around the island, instead. Some of the vehicles were golf carts, there were a few cars and two huge double cab trucks. Most of the vehicles were the golf cart style. The tram, or city bus was a huge golf cart with benches at the back for the students that rode it.
I didn't get a very close picture of this young boy but he said his mother wanted chicken for supper and he had a live chicken in a box in his basket on the front of his bike and his friend was sitting on his cross bar. Fresh chicken tonight.
I guess this guy didn't make it into the harbour. This was along the beach.
Me...walking the beach. It was very beautiful and I got a pile of bites from.....sand lice or noseeums or what I don't know. I never saw the bug, only the itchy bites.
Paradise.
This little store wasn't open. I loved the signs all over the building.
Here's the Immigration Office. It cost us $300 to purchase a cruising pass for a year in the Bahamas.
There's the Tram Stop. We didn't ride it because everything was within walking distance.
This was one of the schools. There were three schools on the island. All the students were wearing uniforms. 
Coming back to the boat and the moon is up. Our lobsters and conch were in our kayak so there's our fresh supper. The conch was too chewy, I needed to pound it more and the lobster was absolutely fabulous.
This was a great fixer upper for us. I love derelict buildings. They are so interesting.
Another empty marina.
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