Day #232 - Green Turtle Cay, Abacos
March 20th, 2009I can hardly believe that the calendar tells me it is the first day of spring. Wow, winter sure goes faster when you are away from the cold weather!
We woke this morning and called on the VHF at 7:30 for a Whale Cay passage report. They said it was fairly calm and was going to increase as the day progressed. We took that as our window and pulled away from the docks at beautiful Orchid Bay at 8:00. Several big boats on the water and the waves were a bit larger than had been reported.
Fortunately the trip from Guana Cay to Green Turtle Cay is only 18 miles and The Whale is only a part of it. We were lucky enough to see another rainbow this morning. Three in two days must mean we are extremely lucky, but then we knew that.
Arrived back at Green Turtle Club & Marina exactly thirty eight days since we left here on February 9th. What a time we have had. The marina is hopping and much busier than when we were here last. The weather reports are saying that we will be here 3-4 days which is fine with us. Great place, lots to see and friendly people. There are fishermen everywhere as seen in the picture below. They were cleaning mostly small fish from yellow tailed snapper and grunt. One fisherman said they make a grunting noise when you pull them out of the water.
Patti, Andy and I went for a nice walk through the resort and away from the marina. I have read that there are four beach areas on Green Turtle Cay and we walked past Coco Bay Beach. Very remote and quiet.
We ate in their restaurant here at the marina. The last time we were here we had the best meal we have had in the Bahamas and that is saying a lot. Green Turtle Resort is where they let you deduct your meal from your dockage fee. Can’t beat that!
After dinner with Brad, Patti and Bob and Brenda (their friends who are down here on vacation), Bob drove us in his golf cart to Pineapple’s where they had local entertainment. We get quite a kick out of the fact that they all seem to play the same music here in the Abacos. By now, it is beginning to sound familiar even to us.
