Bahamas Trip – Post 4, odds and ends

 

My last post with the rest of the pictures.

This is the Sky Beach Resort near Governers Harbour. 

When we got back from our trip to Harbor Island, this gentleman was set up to make fresh Conch Salad.  I do mean fresh, we watched the complete preparation including getting the Conch from the shell. 

Kalik is the local beer, a lovely light brew.

All the building were lovely colors, we had hoped to lunch at this deli, but they were closed.

Randy and I did some crafting with the shells we collected, and Dave got into it too.

I made Randy a set of crochet covered rocks with some stones we picked up on their beach. 

Bahamas Trip – Post 3, Harbour Island

Harbour Island was the most “touristy” place we saw, but other than a group off the ferry from Nassau, it was just a sleepy little town, very high class mind you.

Most of the people on the island drive around in golf carts, and they are available to rent to explore around.  That classy blue one was our ride.

The Pink Sands Beach is listed on someone’s guide to the 10 best beaches in the world.

See the huge crowd, there must have been about a dozen people on the beach with us.

We wandered into the Runaway Hill Inn and the friendly people gave us a tour and a lot of information about the area.

We also visited the Pink Sands Resort.

 

 

That is a lot of pillows!

Before we headed back we did some shopping in the local market.

Bahamas Trip – Post 2, Beaches

The island of Eleuthera is very long and skinny, about 100 miles long, and at one point driving the length of the island you can see the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Caribbean on the other. The Atlantic side is a very deep blue, while the Caribbean is more turquoise. There are lots of wonderful beaches on both sides, each with their own personality. We really enjoyed beach-combing, finding shells, coral pieces, and assorted treasures. At almost every beach we had it all to ourselves.

Bahamas Trip – Post 1

If you are just here for the pictures, please feel free to skip my words, but I imagine there are a few who would enjoy a little background and description of our trip to the island of Eleuthera.

About 12 years ago Dave’s sister, Randy, and her husband Phil purchased a partially completed house on Eleuthera thinking it would be a great place to go when they retire.  After a lot of work and frustration, commuting from their home in California, they are now able to spend several months at their lovely beach home, Heavy Breezes.  

Dave managed a trip to visit 6 years ago when he had business in Miami, but I admit I was a bit reluctant to go, a lot of the reason the long travel time across the country – boy was I silly.

 

All the houses have names, not numbers.  They came up with the name when they called their contractor (from California) during a hurricane to see how things were and he said it was just some “Heavy Breezes”.

The house is built up on stilts.  The vegetation is lush,  so inside or on the deck you feel you are in a tree house, looking out over the tree tops.

 

Under the stairs is the “Tiki Bar”

Signpost depicting the distance to places people have come from, that’s Bellingham on the bottom.

I guess I didn’t take any pictures of the wonderful way Randy has decorated, everywhere you see little grouping of shells, coral and assorted found objects.

       A local custom is “progging”, gathering food from unoccupied land.  This bunch of bananas was progged from a neighbor’s yard who had left for the season.

This is the Oleander Gardens cove, the house is about 2 blocks away.  We’d walk down for sunset viewing.