Meeting Rapunzel

Sailing from Eleuthera to the Abacos.

Don Wood is an artist in Marsh Harbor and has an interesting place to look around. His original jewelry is beautiful!

Concert at ECC school mostly done by volunteers.

ECC a school for developmentally challenged kids.

World’s shortest St Patrick’s Day parade. 300 steps long!! Met up with Joe and Yvonne from Modaki.

Heading to Nippers on Great Guana.

Bare Foot Man concert. Good music, bad lyrics. We didn’t stay long.

The real reason to go to Nippers!!

Wandering Great Guana with Phil and Kathy.

Treasure Cay beach…what can I say? Beautiful!!!

Flo’s world famous cinnamon rolls!!! As great as we remembered from last year!!

Found an actual ice cream shop on Man-O-War Cay. Catching it open was tricky!! Island time!!

Watching boat builders work on an Albury 23.

The Albury 23 comes from above mold.

Chatting with Willard Albury as he rebuilds a wooden boat he originally built some years ago.

Andy Albury is a model builder of the boats his dad built.

The William H Albury. Built 1963. Is being restored by David Wright.

Having a look around the restoration of the William H ALbury.

Elaine and Rudy from Man-O-War and are care takers for a large piece of property owned by people from the US.  They have been the care takers for this family for 50 years! We met them last year and looked for them this year to say hello.

David Wright restoring the Tribute. It is beautiful!!

Abaco dinghy sailing through the anchorage.

Elbow Cay Lighthouse in Hope Town.

View from the window near the top of the lighthouse where Paperbird and Unicorn are anchored together.

Inside the lighthouse.

A stone oven from an earlier time period.

Junior dinghy races are over.

Enjoying a great view!!

Linda, we thought of you when we saw the pink house in Hope Town.

Church in Hope Town where we attended Easter Service.

Becca, Eliana, Zach, Ryan, Noah and Ben this is a picture of the sun shining through bubbles on the top of the water. It looked like stars on the sandy bottom.

A coconut palm tree.

Tahiti beach.

Greg jumped in to clean the bottom of the boat and found these two remora helping out on the bottom of the keel. They were working their way from one end to the other. We did look around for a shark since that’s who they usually hang around with. Notice how little water is under the keel!  This is normal for the Bahamas.

Busy remoras.

Greg cleaning the water line.

Lunch after riding bikes to the end of Elbow Cay and back.

David zipping thru the anchorage in his Abaco dinghy.

Spent an afternoon with Modaki (Joe and Yvonne) and Unicorn (Phil and Kathy)

Who can find Gramps??? Maybe he’s been in the water too long!!!

Lyn feeding oatmeal to the fish.

Reef life.

Mermaid Reef

Pretty blue parrot fish.

Well, maybe her name isn’t Rapunzel but Gayle grew up in a castle and still lives there. We read a book called “The Out Island Doctor” about Evans Cottman. He was a retired science teacher who came to the Bahamas in the 1940’s. He was able, because of his science back ground to become a Dr without going to medical school.  He sailed his boat the Green Cross throughout the islands ministering to the sick. He married a local woman from Abaco named Viola Sawyer and they had a daughter named Gayle. They built a house that looks like a castle that they moved into when Gayle was 12 years old. We were privileged to meet Gayle and see the castle up close. She was very gracious and we enjoyed hearing her stories about her dad and life in the yellow castle on the top of the hill.

Her view from the back porch.

Her dad built it like a castle because he had seen a house like this when he was young and had really liked it so decided to build his family one in the same style.

From the front yard.

Modaki (Joe and Yvonne) going past us.

Sunset

Another sunset, because you can never have too many sunset pictures!!