CODA STILL HERE IN THE BAHAMAS 2025 (51)

 CODA : Exploring Eleuthera, Bahamas.

2 March 2025 

Hatchet Harbour, Alicetown,  Eleuthera, Bahamas  

There are seven sailboats anchored in this nearly landlocked harbor but only one with active AIS.

Marc-  We had thunderstorms overnight that for once did not require a run to close the hatches since we were at a marina with the air conditioning on.  We thought about the boats anchored on the ocean side of the beach as the wind increased.  All was back to sunny skies and a northwest breeze of 10 knots this morning.  The breeze was favorable since we were headed northeast to Hatchet Harbor.  

Nice new bungalows at Cape Eleuthera as we came out of the marina inlet.

The coastline of Eleuthera is a huge arc sort of like Cape Cod in Massachusetts without the mainland to connect to one end.  As we cut across the Bay we could barely see the shore except for the fact that low lying clouds appear only over land.

The 90 foot wide entrance to Hatchet Harbour.

After finding a nice corner spot to anchor we set off ashore.  The dinghy pier was fine.  Unfortunately most of the businesses are closed on Sundays.  A fisherman on the pier suggested a few places that would be open.  The Twin Brothers restaurant was open and it was also suggested that there might be ice cream up the street, but 2.5 miles later no ice cream.  The ice cream shop is part of the laundromat, and a fellow working there said they were out of ice cream, and "maybe next week we'll have some."  We returned to the restaurant, had some dinner, and had a nice time speaking with fellow sailors on a 42 foot Sabre from VA.

We passed by this "full service shipyard" on our ice cream walk.  This shipyard actually builds steel barges and manages a boat storage yard.  

This steel barge is 100 feet long and 30 feet wide.

The black rubber inflatable tubes are placed under the barge and inflated when it is ready to launch.

Since the barge is built on an a very large launching ramp it can be pushed out to the harbor rolling on the rubber tubes.

Back in town (A fairly large blue collar town with friendly people).

We wandered down this alley to the Twin Brothers resto bar.

Nice little place with outdoor covered seating.  

Sue:  Our overall thoughts re Alicetown:  rough around the edges with friendly people.  It reminded us a lot of Bimini - the area where the Bahamian people lived, not the area by the cruise ship port.  And not  like the Cape Eleuthera resort we stayed at last night.  Tomorrow we plan to go to Spanish Wells.