Eleuthera Activities

If hanging about...playing music...going to BBQs and the beach are activities......well that's what we've been doing to stay active. You've still got to cook and wash up and keep the lovely Jabiru clean ....well the crew does that....the captain's got more important tasks to do,like check the mooring lines aren't chafing etc.
Driving round the island,or more like driving up and down,as it's very narrow and nearly 120 miles long,is another activity. Here's the historic Governors Harbour library where we can swap books for that other activity...reading.

 

 And here's the interior with some kids getting active with some paint. It's all go .

Driving north we come to the Glass Window which used to be a natural rock bridge 'til a hurricane took it out last century some time and they replaced it with a road bridge.

That's the Atlantic spilling over into the Sound (Caribbean according to real estate salespersons).

I told you it was a narrow island.

Back down south is Rock Sound that has this interesting  hole way back from the shore that is connected to the sound by underground "tunnels' and is full of fish that swim through from the sound to feed on tourist handouts .I worry about the laziness of young fish nowadays.

Way down south the deserted,and hard to get to Lighthouse Beach . You have to walk 2 or 3 hundred yards through scrub and sand dunes.( action!) 

Gail beachcombs.

And I carry.

Most of the beaches on Eleuthera are pink (ish )

Up ,just north of Hatchet Bay again is Surfers Beach that has great surf breaks off another hard to get to beach.Just having the little digital camera I couldn't get surfing shots as the breaks are way out near the reef but even the shore break was big enough to pound me into the sand and into submission.

The surfers have built these shelters on the beach and observation towers and seats further up the hill.They are decorated with the tons of flotsam that washes up on the Atlantic beaches. Some of it local but mostly from Europe and Africa.

OK ......finally...music.

 

Warm up gig for the Eleuthera All that Jazz festival.

Couple of North Carolina lads(3 including me)

CJ Reggae's out ..and the chick in the yellow top belted out some t'riffic rock an' roll then disappeared into the night again.

Very cool jazzy night at the Rainbow Inn

Stay tuned for a very exciting flight to Nassau for a day and exploring the subterranean delights of the caves , the Pineapple Jam festival and if y'all are still awake I'd like to show you around Alice Town ,the sweet little settlement overlooking 'atchet Bay.

Oh... and we found this little gem at the North Eleuthera airport.

I think the artist/carpenter didn't quite get the idea that our bodies are supposed to be hidden and the average human head is half the size of his or her cutouts!

Nevertheless it gets included in our worldwide collection because it's.....sooo bad.