Luke bought a T-shirt in Harbor Island, a cheap $5 one. This was the tag in it...
When I first read it, I read "made by small child labour"... LOL!
Spanish Wells is the most prosperous of the islands in the Eluthera group. Founded by Europeans seeking religious freedom in the 1600's, the island is still a "dry" island and everything is closed on Sunday. The locals who are a bit adventurous make runs across the short, shallow bank to mainland Eluthera, home of the little yellow building. You guess it! Beer, wine, and liquors!
Fishing is, of course, the main industry here.
A successful year of fishing for lobsters can bring a good fisherman a million dollars a year! The lobstering industry here actually builds "lobster hotels". These are, for example, 4'X8'pieces of corrugated tin roofing, supported by two 2X12's, located at secret points in the area, available only by GPS to the fisherman. The fishermen go down with hookah gear, pull the"hotel" away, and pick up the lobsters and declaw one claw of any accompanying stone crabs. The lobsters apparently love the set up and are quite easy to find there. The town shows the prosperity with cute, well maintained homes.
Others like it here, too. My picture doesn't do justice to this 60 foot "cigarette boat" style beauty, moored at the yacht haven in town.
Seems that Lenny Kravitz owns the boat plus 2 houses on Eluthera (click here). One has a complete, first class recording studio. The dock master tells us that when Lenny needs to run to Nassau for a meeting, he simply zips out in this boat, makes the 50 mile trip in 45 minutes, and uses $1000 of diesel. mmm...money~
While walking around town, we noticed a palm tree that had been cut down. See anything unusual?
No rings! Here is your answer! (click on "answer")
Spanish Wells has great hardware stores, a USA style grocery store, more Androsa fabric, and a lot more. But they don't have decent water. The town water is brackish. A nearby cruiser said he tested the water with a saline tester (used to test his water-maker output). The results? 1700 parts per million. Typical reverse osmosis water is 200 parts per million. But a very nice lady has an R/O water system and sells water. In 5 gallon jugs. We needed at least 80 gallons. So...16 jugs and whadda ya get? 80 gallons of water!
She brought the jugs to the marina in her over sized golf cart and her helper used a hand truck to take them to the boat dock for us. Now is when the generousity of the cruiser community comes into play. With the help of 4 more cruisers, one of which we didn't know, all 16 jugs were poured into our 2 tanks in less than an hour!
Look carefully at the bottom left and you'll see Luke carefully sucking on the siphon, getting the water started into the aft tank.
Still sailing with Conny and Alvin, we also reconnected with Martha and Bill. Dinner at our place with Connie's minestrone soup, Martha's yummy green salad, and my homemade bread. Followed by dominoes.
Today - Friday - we left the marina and are anchored just outside of the entrance to Spanish Wells. We can still easily dinghy into town. The next few days have the wind from the wrong direction to sail northward, but we will be comfortable here. And I have good internet for some reason!
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