Green Turtle Cay

Tonight is our 3rd night here at Green Turtle Cay Club.  We've met several nice couples who are all making short spring cruises too -  Darrel & Jennifer on Freelance, Dave & Dotty on Wings, Bud & Jann on Persphone.  The wind has been NE 15-25 all day and is expected to remain the same tomorrow, then shift to the SE at 10-15 on Monday.  If that happens we will leave Monday morning and head south for Guana Cay and pick up a mooring near the small settlement there for the night and visit Nippers, a beach front restaurant on a high bluff overlooking the ocean and a beautiful reef.  We have snorkled on this reef before and if the water is calm we will do it again.  We may be travelling in company with Perspone to Guana Cay.  Thursday we shared a golf cart with Wings and toured Green Turtle.  I'll post some beach photos below.  Friday we napped and spent time at the pool and danced on the restaurant outdoor deck to a local regge band that played a few Waylen Jennings and Louis Armstrong tunes if you can imagine that.  Today we took the dinghy to town.  New Plymouth is a settlement of a few hundred people on the south end of the Cay about a 1 mile dinghy ride away.  We did some shopping for groceries.  Some products are from the US some from British Commonwealth countries.  After eating New Zealand butter on toast this morning I don't think I'll ever be happy with US cows ever again. Diane wrote some postcards.  They won't get mailed until next Thursday since mail is only picked up and delivered one day a week.  There doesn't seem to be poverty here but definately an economy of plain living on a basic level.  There are no supermarkets here, only little mom and pop groceries that carry basic necessities.  If you want more, go to the larger island town of Marsh Harbour - population of about 15,000 we were told.

So here are a couple of beach photos Taken a short walk from the marina.

These below are of the Sea of Abaco looking south from the Bluff House toward New Plymouth.  That's Dotty from Wings next to Diane.

New Plymouth is a town of quaint small houses and shops with narrow streets mostly used by golf carts and pedestrians.  We see a few cars now and then.

AND NOW FOR THE

PHOTO OF THE DAY THANKS TO DIANE

I have no idea why the text alignment just changed, but never the less - Diane spotted this star fish in about 3 feet of wate as we were riding in the dinghy back to the boat from New Plymouth.  It's about 10" from tip to tip.  We have seen several of these in the past week but this is the first time we had the camera when we saw one.