273 Bahamas 2014

William's Town

$2 Bar, 2 beer for $5.00

273 Bahamas, Shavargo, Funmi...

A boy on his bicycle in Williams Town.

Doris and I working on our computers, planning her business.

Funmi and Chris' side yard. Funmi wants to build a Retirement Home here.

The second car I rented. The first one wouldn't start so they gave me another one.

Our kayak at Funmi and Chris' place. The grandchildren use it in the summer in the canal.

Sea Grape plant.

A spotted Eagle Ray in Funmi's canal.

Dillies. They have a Dillie Tree in their yard. The good fruit, sweet.

The canal that divides Grand Bahama into two.

Shavargo and me in Port Lucaya.

Shavargo's hands brailling. This Brailler came from my friend Val Sheekey and her friend is Al. Thanks to Val and Al for their great gift.

Island seas Beach, Williams Town Beach.

272 Brailling in the Bahamas and Portia, Fumi, Bonnie and me

Sunrise at the house over the bridge, Fumi and Chris', on the canal.

One year I went to Young Husband Ave. to The Haven where the PACE girls go to have their education while they are pregnant, young teenage girls. Val and I taught knitting and crotcheting that year.

The Haven where PACE,Providing Access to Continued Education, for young teenage girls who are pregnant.

Buildings for the orphanage in Freeport.

Bonnie and Portia in Port Lucaya.

Fumi and me in Port Lucaya.

Fumi, Portia and me.

Portia and Fumi.

Miss Carolyn and Miss Latika with me. They gave me roses and a plaque in appreciation for my work. Thank you so very much to everyone in the group, Brailling in the Bahamas Group at Ruby Swiss.

Pastor Lornel Wilchcombe and his wife Miss Peggy.

Latka's finder brailling.

Leona's fingers brailling.

Leona Armbrister and her daughter Latika a Ruby Swiss.

Vanny Roole's finger brailling on my Brailler from the Peel Board of Education.

My Brailler for the Peel Board.

Leona and Vanny at Ruby Swiss. Wes always brings us a drink on the house. Vanny gets a virgin Pina Colada and Leona gets one of those red ones. I get Campari and grapefruit juice. Miss Carolyn owns the restaurant with her adult children and she gives us the space free and then treats us to drinks and food. She is a VERY generous woman.

These are Joniece's fingers brailling. Her brailler came from Donna Winter's and her son Tim.

Joniece's fingers brailling.

Wes' fingers brailling. His brailler came from a lady sailor who is blind and she gave me 3 braillers this year, 2015. Unfortunately I didn't get her name and so I can't thank her personally but I'll send out thank yous to her in cyberspace. Gayle, a friend and sailor at Ocean Reef, fixed this brailler for Wesley.

Wesley and Miss Carolyn.

Janiece and me.

Miss Carolyn's fingers brailling on her brailler. Her brailler came from money I collected from the Women's Institute on the Island, Presbyterian Women's Associaion on the Island, David Pickering and Janet Scott. I bought this one brand new.

Here you see 5 cassette tape recorders. I use them to speak their contractions and dots onto so that when they go home they can play the tape and listen and braille. I bought these from money that I collected in my donation jar at the Cafe' and from Anthony and me.

This is a picture of two braille labellers and an abacus.

This is Leona and Vanny. There are two other braillers out there that Pastor Lornel has and Shavargo. I need one more for a new student, David Thompson and one for the new student that hasn't come yet.

272 Bahamas, Banana Bay, Fishing with Les...

A great book from Fumi. Learned good ideas for listening. Tell me about...then listen for signposts....ask another tell me...using the signposts...do brief inserts while listening and people will tell you a lot more.

My first rental car. My second one was grey and 2 door. The first one wouldn't start after 3 days so they gave me a new one.

Fumi working on her computer in the kitchen.

The view of the canal and backyard from my chair.

Grasses inside Fumi's house, beautiful sunlight.

Fumi and Chris' front yard.

Fumi and Chris' front yard.

Standing in Fumi and Chris' front yard.

Fishing with Les.

Les kissing the Grunt Fish.

Fishing with Les.

A Laughing Gull.

Bonnie under the Socializing Palm Tree at Ocean Reef.

Bougainvillea Bush.

Pirate outside of Grand Bahama Scuba.

Edmund brailling.

Edmund Brailling.

Edmund brailling on Brailler from me and a sailor who is blind.

Edmund brailling.

Leron brailling.

Leron brailling.

Leron brailling.

Banana Bay Beach.

me

Banana Bay Beach

Banana Bay Beach, met Gabriele there and went with Bonnie.