It get’s lonely out here in the Lower Bahamas after Georgetown… which is sometimes a good thing… and sometimes not.
We’ve been “stuck” off Long Island, Bahamas waiting for a weather window to continue our progress through the Lower Bahamas and on towards the Turks and Caicos Islands. There are worse places to be “stuck” of course; and we take advantage of a blown rental car reservation of others to go exploring.
Long Island is rather interesting – though we must admit, we’d never really heard of it before. The Cape Santa Maria Resort (yes – as in the “Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria”) is a well established travel destination and we met several couples and families that travel here each year for a unique vacation getaway. It’s a bit removed from… well everything. In a sense, the whole island is, but we found it really comforting. It’s good to get back “home” to island life on anchor.
And speaking of the Santa Maria, Long Island is one of the early stops for Christopher Columbus’ first expedition to the “New World” in 1492. As we would soon find, there’s still quite a bit of controversy on where Columbus actually landed… though we’re not quite sure we understand why. 🤷🏽♂️
This place is rather big too (hence the name: “Long Island”) and a few stops really capture our interest. We discover an abandoned 18th century church with a trail trough the brush that leads to “Shrimp Hole;” a fresh water cave with curious residents. We also join sv Sheet Show to go in search of the Stella Mares Cave; a place where Peter Pan and Wendy might have hung out. And there is the famous Dean’s Blue Hole; a 600+ natural hole in the ocean steps from shore and the home to one of the most iconic free-diving competitions in the world. Long Island really has a lot to offer.
But we’d like to keep on moving… so when the weather presents us with a “hole” of it’s own, we take it to reposition to the southern end of Long Island just off Clarencetown, in preparation for making the jump over to Crooked Island and the Aklin Islands. It’s a long day of motoring, but on e we won’t soon forget!
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