From Great Guana we headed to Marsh Harbour for a few days. Marsh Harbour is the third largest city in the Bahamas with about 5,000 people. Anything you need is available here. We did some shopping, fished, ate at Snappa’s with Dirk and Nancy and just had a great time. It is a working port with ferries and commercial container ships so it is a bit loud but still a nice stop.
Dea Latis, fourth boat from the left anchored in the harbour:
Dinghy dock courtesy of the Royal Marsh Harbour Yacht Club:
Marsh Harbour:
We had to go to the phone company to get our cell phones. Verizon should take a lesson from the folks at Bahamas Telephone Company. In and out in 20 minutes with two phones activated and ready to go! When we got our Droid we were in the Verizon office for over an hour!! Everyone at BaTelCo was very nice and very helpful!!
Then we were off to Maxwell’s grocery store. As nice or nicer than any grocery store in the US at twice to three times the price! I don’t know how people can afford to eat here! Seriously, is $1.20 too much for an apple? The apples looked so tasty I just had to have one and it was delicious!! We did really well here, got everything on the list, maybe a couple extras then back to the boat.
Very nice store!
Happy hour, 5 to 11pm, at one of the waterfront establishments, Snappa’s. Beautiful view:
A guy walked in wearing a Hamilton Marine (marine supply store in Maine) sweatshirt, had to go talk to him. He bought a hull in NY and brought it back to CT to finish. Evidently he bought much of what he needed from Hamilton Marine. Very nice people. I had to get a picture, funny to see that in the Bahamas:
Very nice bar/restaurant. We had a great time there with Dirk and Nancy.
Dirk and I went to the reef outside of Man O War Cay and got one lobster each. Not many lobster but a fun day! Tanya and I had grilled chicken and lobster tails for dinner, soooooo tasty!!!
We left Marsh Harbour this morning and picked up a mooring in Hope Town, waiting for a nasty cold front to pass. Temps are already down in the lower 70s! Hope Town looks so nice, we can’t wait to get out and explore tomorrow.
More to follow!
hope the temps don’t go any lower or you’ll want to come home; oh, no, wait, we’re getting ready for another snow storm w/heavy winds!!!!!