On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:11:15 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >WOW! You guys have sent a lot of great ideas. > >Bill & I are opposites when it comes to people & islands. He likes the >quiet out of the way places. Those are nice & I enjoy those places. However, >I >enjoy being around people too. Not just the islands, but other boaters as >well. I enjoy listening to the stories that others have to tell. And >learning of different places to go & things to see. > We haven't been to the Bahamas since 2002 because Bob had a heart attack and we just didn't go back after that. I like to be in a marina and go out to dinner every night, and Bob just likes the sailing part, and not so much the marina part. > >At some of the places that have been mentioned, why did you decide to go >there? > I read some of the guides and decided on that basis. We were somewhat restricted because we have a very slow boat and some of the places were more than a day's travel for us. I do the planning and he does the implementation. So the places we went were the places we could get to in a day's sail.
We went to Bimini because it was the closest place and I really liked it. It was not fancy or a tricked up place for tourists. You could rent a golf cart and see all of Alicetown in an hour. The ladies baked bread and coconut candy. There were some little restaurants. I had the radio on all the time because that was how you heard all the gossip. There was none of the 'stay off of Channel 16' stuff from any authority. I could hear when people wanted a water taxi pick up or if the restaurant had ice cream - it was like a big party line. We went to Frazier's Hog Key in the Berries because it was the next place - we spent the night on the Banks and then went there. Not much there. You can take a mooring but our boat is really too big for their moorings. Very few people. You could anchor and spend a lot of time there without seeing many people. Next we went to Nassau. I listened to the local radio station, and I loved a song I heard which the refrain went "If you can't find your friend in Nassau, he's in Freeport, or he's in jail". I enjoyed Nassau too, although it was a large city. After Bob's heart attack we went to Chubb which I wasn't too fond of, but when we were there, the transients had pot lucks etc. We also went to Lucaya. The marina had a water taxi to take you over to the marketplace where there was music and restaurants, and the cruisers in the marina were friendly. You could get a jitney bus into Freeport to shop if you wanted. West End was quite isolated and I felt it was 'cold'. An illustrated log of our first trip (written for non-sailors) starts here http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/2abf0/#TL I talk about pocketmail which is what we had in those days - they are out of business now. The second trip starts here http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/2e608/#TL >Any other places you would like to go that you haven't had a chance yet? > We didn't get to the Abacos or Georgetown in the Exumas or the Berry Islands (except for the lower end) and would have liked to go there >Any place you would not miss no matter what? _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
