Andros, Day Two

Mennonite Farm stand

 

We are back in the car at 8:00 and heading south again. First stop, the Mennonite farm for those strawberrys. We are little too early someone is still picking them. We were temped to walk over and help. A few minutes later a farm hand shows up the 6 pints of strawberry and we take them all.

 

 

 

 

Traveling south again on the Queens Highway, there seems to be one of every island, we stop at “The Bahamas Agriculture & Marine Science Institute”, Academic Campus, Research and Demonstration Farm. We initially were hoping they had a vegetable stand. We find a “guarded” entrance and are given permission to drive to the main building. There are currently no students on the Campus and the place look deserted. 

 

 

 

Later I find out that Campus has been recently built. When we get to the office we find a number of vehicles and farm workers. Looking on Google Earth the campus is surrounded by acres of fields. Looks like a well intentioned effort that is having funding and/or growing pains.

 

Facility housing ?

 

 

 

Our next stop is a coffee/pastry shop that we discovered yesterday.

Coffee Break

 

Then from there we head to “Captain Bills Blue Hole” in the National Park, now that I know how to find it. Thank you Google Earth. Not a sign or anything were to turn off the main road. The blue hole has a nice Pavilion one the edge that swimmers can jump off from. Unfortunately the floating dock at the base of the stairs is over turned preventing easy egress from the water. We walk the nature trails and enjoy the solitude at the Pavilion on the edge of the blue hole. We regret not packing a lunch to hang out here longer.

 

Panoramic shot of Captain Bill's Blue Hole

Pavilion over Blue, jumping platform

We drive back to Fresh Creek to check out two “restaurants”, neither one looked like they were really open for business, so we head back to the Brigadier. Again another excellent lunch.

 

On our way back to Morgans Bluff we stop at a grocery store and both couples by a pint of ice cream and immediately sit on the curb and eat it. Yum! We park the car and head out to our boats to shower so we can go out to dinner at a local BBQ restaurant, “Smokehouse BBQ”, that sounded interesting.

 

Tonight there is not BBQ. There in just one other couple here, so I assume they only BBQ on weekends. Very rustic dining, sand floor, covered dinning area, decorated with “flotsam and jetsam”, very cool. Good dinner, but we should of split, way too much food for us, Steak and cheese wrap and nachos. We had interesting conversations with a couple, US citizens who have a house here and are living here full time. Casually mentioned they are here to avoid the IRS.

Leaving Smokehouse after sunset