More Wild Adventures on Eleuthera

         This is fun ....sitting on your boat and getting internet ......life could be better...somewhere.
                                                                   We'll keep looking.
                                                                            Soon

This morning we turned on the laptop and surprise surprise there's Lisa on line ( it was just about midnight there ) We clicked on Skype and I've gotta tell all you lonely people...get yer ass over to Australia...Love is in the Air. So....now my eldest ( and littlest) little girl has joined the " big smiles club " when boyfriend Alan got down on one knee and slipped a ring on her finger. Lisa sent us a "selfie" at the time but a month or so later I'm editing in the latest photo....cos it's ....better and sweet.








 

Now where were we? Activities..

The Eleuthera Caves. The island is full of 'em...caves , caverns and all sorts of holes and tunnels through the limestone but the big daddy of 'em all is just a couple of miles north of Hatchet Bay/Alice Town. The day we went ,there was no one but us so it was weird and cool. The line of caves goes right across the island west to east.Apparently one has to get down on hands and knees to crawl the last bit into the open on the Atlantic side...so one (read two ) didn't go that far..about a mile.

The caves haven't been developed like many with lights and guides etc and dats a good thing.

Turn your torches/flashlights off and it's total darkness.

For example the first is camera flash and the second is sorta how it was.

 

 

OK ..I couldn't get them next to each other but you get the idea.

 

One of the big caverns. The black dots are bats.

There is some graffiti from the late 1800's but there's a lot more from idiots who think future visitors are going to give a  *&#! that Fred and Mandy were there once.!

Nevertheless it was pretty spectak.

Last weekend at Gregory Town, the next settlement north of here,they had the Pineapple Jam music festival. Unfortunately I see that the only still shots I got (haven't figured how to edit and upload videos ) were of the Gregory Town Brass Band.....but...let me tell you there was 12 bands altogether from all over and it was all so impressive that I was videoing them all...or the rum made me think I was taking stills.

Absolute highlight was a gospel choir from James Cistern.Think the church scene from The Blues Brothers and your close. The Pastor/keyboard player /lead singer was as close to James Brown as ya like and with a hot bass player and drummer and two more tenors and about fifteen or so women/girls joyously 'Praisin' the Lord' ...blew our minds. I told the Pastor afterwards that if that's what went on at his church I just might....I dunno.

It all went so well that our whiteboy band led by Nick, who put the whole thing together, didn't even get time to play...which was probably a good thing after 6 hours of drinkin' rum.

Still an all Bill and I were happy we got a tee shirt.!

OK I'll post this. Happy Easter.