Eluethera, Hachet Bay

Owner of The Buccaneer

We got up around 7:00 and head ashore to have breakfast at the Buccaneer. Had a very relaxing breakfast and we got to talk a lot with the owner, Liz, a very interesting Bahamian woman who is well traveled and lived in Europe. The previous afternoon she was conversing in Italian to a large group eating there. 

 

Linda finds a Hamburger Sea Bean

Finally we leave to walk over to the Atlantic side. As we are walking up the hill a local resident, Kathy Colman, offers us a ride to the beach. Kathy rents out vacation homes at Governors Harbor. As we get to the top of the hill we pass a house that we saw on our last trip here and comment on how much we liked that house. Kathy says thank you, it's mine. We get her business card. Would love to fly in here sometime and rent a vacation home for a couple weeks.

Club Med beach

We walked the length of the Club Med beach. Club Med was wiped out by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and never reopened. Most of the destroyed buildings have been removed and the rest of the out buildings are falling down. The grounds are still being maintained, but not the remaining buildings.

 

The main pool at Club Med

We walked back to town, had lunch on the boat and pulled anchor at 1:00 PM.

We have a nice 3 hour motor to Hatchet Bay. Hatchet Bay is a very protected harbor. It is a pond that has a narrow man made cut to the ocean. Holding is not all that great. We have to drop the anchor twice to get an acceptable set.

Can barely see the cut into Hatchet Bay until you are right there

 The Car ferry arrives from Nassau, it just barely fits through the cut.