Wednesday, 25 March 2015

March 22 - 23, 2015 Little Harbour, Abaco, Bahamas


Curley Tail


Paying our mooring fee at Pete's Pub Bar


at anchor in Little Harbour


one of the caves


some of the bronze sculptures


outside the museum and art gallery










the front counter was part of an old boat, even with the propeller


back at Pete's Pub


signed t-shirts from all over the world


foundation of the light house


inside, looking outside


heading off to another beach


a great sea glass hunting beach


having the Blaster drink


inside the cave


a mushroom (flowerpot) Island


this cave looked a bit dangerous, rocks ready to fall


some of our sea glass


anchor well dug in


red starfish, in about 5 ft of water  .. this area had hundreds of red star fish


that's me … funny picture

March 22, 2015

We entered Little Harbour at high tide.  Low tide its 3.5 ft deep.  Modaki is 5 ft loaded.

Little Harbour is beautiful, small, surrounded on 3 sides by hills and dotted with private homes.  Mooring balls are $25/night with no services.  No anchoring.

Sculptor Randolph Johnston and his wife Margot who worked in ceramics, lived in a cave and on their boat while building their home in the 1950's. Randolph was an internationally known artist renowned for his "lost wax" casting in bronze. His son, Pete, owner of Pete's Pub has been also using a 5,000-year-old wax process in casting his bronze sculptures. They can be seen around the art gallery, museum and Pete's Pub.  Prices are around 3 - 4 thousand dollars and higher.

We walked to the ocean side to see the foundation of the lighthouse, we understand the mortar was mixed with conch shells for strength.

Close by " A Bight of Old Robinson", to the west has numerous interesting shallow creeks, some with "Blue Holes".  We will have to save this for next year.

We headed out again for about a 1 1/2 mile walk to another beach.  Here we found an abundance of very round sea glass. It was a bit of a challenge, because the ocean waves would wash in the glass and you had to scramble to grab it before it was washed out with the next wave. Joe found our first ever glass bottle stopper.

It was a very hot day and I found a safe area to go for a swim.

On our way back tot he dinghy, we stopped at Pete's Pub for a drink.  I had a Blaster, made from 5 different rums and 3 fruit juices, it was so good I had two.  This pub is open air with sand floor and all outside.
Next stop was the caves, accessible only by dinghy at low tide.  I'm sure a lot has changed since Randolph Johnston and his family lived there.

Monday 23rd
We left Little Harbour on the rising tide about midway…. Foresail out and gliding along at 5 - 5.5 knots. We passed 2 ocean openings and both only had swells, no breaking waves.
We stopped for the day at Armstrong Cay, snorkelled, walked the beach, and Joe continued to scrub the bottom of the boat.
There is 3 other boats in this remote anchorage, no wind at 10 PM.

BUT by 10:30 PM a squall came thru, with high winds from N then NE, 25knots plus, and lots of rain, of course our bow is now heading away from shore. Joe stayed up, and set the anchor alarm.  We had the key in the ignition switch, everything ready to start the engine and head out  into the Sea of Abaco, if our anchor dragged.
By 1am the squall passed and Joe headed to bed at 1:30 am
The next morning we had collected enough fresh water for me to wash some clothes, before we headed out to Hope Town. 



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