Ocean Hole, Rock Sound

We have been here 10 days and are planning to head north up the island in a day or two. While here we've walked to the market for provisioning, ferried water jugs and fuel jugs to and from the boat, and gone sightseeing. There are several nice little stores here: hardware, liquor, office supplies, beauty shops, laundry, service stations, etc. As I said before, the people are very friendly; in fact twice we've been offered rides when carrying stuff. The anchorage has been very calm most of the time. The water is a bit cloudy, but still that pretty blue, with lots of little minnows around the boat and bigger fish from time to time. The minnows sometimes fly out of the water like confetti (I call them fishfetti) and some end up in the dinghy, but we never find them in time to save them. One evening we watched a couple of dolphins and a ray moving across the harbor. We did move across the harbor to the west side when westerlies blew in ahead of a cold front (along with 18 other boats!), which was very protected as well.

One of our sightseeing stops was Ocean Hole park, a 600 ft. deep, wide hole in the limestone. There are a lot of good sized ocean fish there, like grouper, snapper, and angelfish. We didn't swim in it, but it's supposed to have minerals dissolved in it making it healthy, like a spa. It is surrounded by a nicely landscaped park with picnic tables, playground equipment and informative signs on the history, geography, and culture of the area.