The past few days have been spent at Green Turtle Cay (here forward abbreviated as GTC) unwinding from the transit over from Ft. Lauderdale. We were tired from the trip and decided to take it somewhat easy and spend some real time exploring more of GTC. Unfortunately we haven't been able to update this blog because suddenly the ISP went down and they've been trying to get the blog site back up and running.

On Wednesday we explored New Plymouth, the main GTC settlement. It's a very picturesque town catering to the isolated tourists that visit. Plenty of little Bahamian home-run businesses and small businesses. The bank has somewhat restricted hours - 10am to 2 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays - That's it! A total of 8 hours open per week. Talk about "bankers' hours" :>) There are a couple of small hardware stores, a home and garden center, teo or three museums, maybe 4 grocery stores and a few restaurants/bars.

On Thursday we continued to explore GTC. I decided to do some laundry while we had the opportunity so we packed up and went to White sound to checkout the laundry facilities at the Bluff House marina. They had one washer only and it was being used by someone else. So we decided to hike to the other side of the sound and visit the Gree Turtle Club. It is a very quiet, nicely kept resort and marina but significantly more expensive than the Bluff House. Dockage at the Club is $1.95/ft/night but you get to reduce your dockage by the amount you spend in the dining room/bar. Water was 25 cents/gal. The Bluff House's dockage is $1.25 /ft/night with the same deal to reduce the dockage by the amount you spend in the dining room/bar. Bluff's water is 20 cents/gal with the first 100 gallons free with dockage. Their rates and the meal deal thing changes in April. Since we had time while the clothes were in the wash, we walked the central and northern parts of the island. Getting somewhat lost along the way ('cuase Jim forgot the map!) we eventually made it to the Atlantic Ocean beach where the winds were really whipping. The secondary roads along the way were narrow and sometimes cut thru the island's rock (see pic).