Baretta's Seashell Inn Harbor Island

After few hours of sailing, we arrived at the port of Harbour Island. We rented a golf cart for 50 dollars ovenight with full gas without having to worry about insurance and returning the cart with full gas. The instruction to us is to just leave the cart at the port with it's key in it when we leave.<br><br>This ain ...

Sorry that we haven't been able to write a blog sooner, this is the first time we've had internet access for long enough! Well, the two of us have been having a fantastic time in the Bahamas. We started out in Nassau where we spent a couple of days exploring the capital. The buildings here are very twee, pastel coloured and kind of colonial style. We navigated the streets and wandered through the straw market and watched the big cruise ships at the harbour ...

... throbbing was especially annoying at night when trying to sleep. The clinic in this town had one doctor that I had to telephone when I arrived inside. The doctor that arrived in this tiny Bahamian town oddly enough was Chinese. He spoke English pretty well, but I was thinking to myself of all the places to be treated by a Chinese doctor the middle of the Bahamas was not it. After sitting up on the exam table came the worst ...

... in our dive bags proved futile, so this day we used our fishing net. The lobster here were hiding in crevices 25 feet below the surface and repeatedly diving down that deep was absolutely exhausting. While dealing with the deep water we also had this large barracuda that would hang around. By now we are pretty used to the barracuda down here and justified there constant presence as mere curiosity as opposed to hostile. Even so ...

At P's insistence, we joined her on her day trip over to their other property on nearby Harbour Island. No, we didn't take a ferry, nor did we take a regularly scheduled flight. P's private plane flown by their 24-hour standby pilot was the transport mode of choice. How amazingly convenient it was to waltz into the charter plane terminal and be whisked immediately onto the tarmac and up the stairs to the ...

... some had gone through a remodel. There was also a new resort that had been recently built. The condos modeled themselves after the 18th century architecture but on a grander scale. The resort was called Valentine's, and boasted a gorgeous new marina where world class multimillion dollor yachts moored themselves. After walking for about an hour we found ourselves on the pink sand beach on the Atlantic side of the island. The sand was soft and felt squishy between my toes ...

... C'était un peu nuageux, mais la température était chaude, et la mer assez chaude pour être confortable. J'ai fait un peu de snorkeling autour des récifs et bien que ça ne soit pas les fonds d'Hawaii, c'était tout de même amusant. A 11h30 on est allé se chercher une petite assiette au barbecue - c'était sobre mais très bien: hot dogs, hamburgers, pilons de poulet, salade etc ...

... voi kuvitella minkä verran sisäsiittoisuutta tapahtuu. Eli siis paikalliset hyvin erikoisia ja välillä vähän jännitti, mutta saari itsessään on tosi kaunis ja ihanteellinen juuri tuohon leijalautailuun. Siis AJ, joka opettaa sitä täällä oli vuokrannut sieltä talon rannalta pariksi viikoksi ja järjesti kiteboarding leirejä, joihin osallistui ihmisiä ympäri maailmaa. Tosi hauska konsepti ja paras mahdollinen tapa oppia laji, jos ketään kiinnostaa.. Ja loppuun tietysti KUVIA!

... Getting around the island without a car is definitely possible, if you allow yourself to be open to all possibilities. We walked in the hot sun (do not try without sunscreen or if you can't walk a couple miles), under the starlit skies, and were offered rides both at night and during the day, which we gladly accepted. When trying to actually rent a car to get to Harbour Island we struck out, but a ...

After breakfast, we tried to find a snorkel site. There were two good sites nearby, Fowl Cay and Little Mermaid Cay. Both sites were too rough and choppy to snorkel and dive comfortably. We had wanted to stay in Hope Town the day before, but the moorings were full. Ted radioed the Hope Town marina early in the morning and they had a vacant mooring we could reserve for the night. We headed from the Man of War area back south to Hope Town. It is only about a ...