A happy shopper in Hope Town
The shoppers felt a need to hit the shop, Ebb Tide that we'd visited yesterday, so we dinghied across the harbor and hit the Hope Town Coffee Shop first and then headed to the Ebb Tide. The owner's daughter is very talented and had several thing on display including some beautiful jewelry made from sterling and beach glass. We both found something we couldn't pass up!
We slipped our lines around 10:30 and headed out the harbor. We tread lightly as we enter and leave this harbor as the charts show several 5 and 6 foot spots. We managed without touching and raised main and jib as soon as we were in deeper water. We only had 6 miles to go to get back to Harbor View Marina in Marsh Harbor so we sailed over toward Man-O-War Cay and around some smaller cays before heading town Marsh Harbor. We had heard about a good snorkeling reef on the outside of the harbor and headed there, dropped the hook and had lunch. We were the only boat in the area at that point, but by the time we headed over to the Mermaid Reef in the dinghy there were 5 other boats! We understood why once we got in the water. We saw more fish and more varieties than we have previously! I took 82 pictures and had a hard time whittling down!
Pegg found this good Bahamian Beer that
looks like and even tastes a bit like Heineken.
A few "new" fish showed up on Mermaid's Reef - top row: Queen Parrotfish, Queen Triggerfish, Hogfish. I'd never seen a Ballyho before and there were lots zooming around. The ever present grunts love to hover together at the edge of a coral head, and the Squirrelfish is often too shy to capture.
Next we have a uncooperative Midnight Parrotfish(he was really big), a feeding frenzy (one of the other snorkeling groups brought a whole loaf of bread), a Blue Tang, two different looking Grunts and a Stoplight Parrotfish.
We got into our slip at the marina by 3:30 - in time for just one more shopping trip! Pegg had spied some baskets made on Andros with Androsia fabric woven in and hadn't found anything better on our travels. We found just what we always needed! We had a fair amount of food that needed to be eaten so Dan and Jay scouted out the gas grill up next to the swimming pool and declared it worthy of our lamb chops. We enjoyed a little bit of chopped fresh mint sprinkled on top of them. Tomorrow the taxi will be here at 8:45 to whisk Jay and Pegg back to Florida. Sad to see them go. We are amazed that we managed to work four sets of visitors into our schedule without too much trouble. ~~~_/)~~~M&D, J&P
Pegg insisted we get a picture with our hats, you can see that mine has had a rougher life than hers!
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