Tugboats and Trees Don't Mix
05 May 2015
We took a road trip south of Clarence Town on Long Island Bahamas to a place called Diamond Crystal. It is called Diamond Crystal because the salt company by the same name had a huge operation here until the Bahamas government wanted too much in taxes, and the company simply pulled out. It is an amazing complex of salt ponds and canals, designed to allow water to flow into huge shallow ponds, and evaporate, leaving the salt behind.
Our tour guide for the day, was Kathy Rose, a native of this island that grew up right here, in the Diamond Crystal complex. Her father was a tugboat captain, among other things, and she had a house right here on the Diamond Crystal property on the beach. It is abandoned now, as is the entire place, and slowly nature is taking the entire place back.
The tugboat her father ran was called the Carmen, and it is still at Diamond Crystal, now anchored in sand. The harbor is awash with sand now, completely filled in. The once proud tugboat still faces the opening to the sea that once was, but is now sitting on dry land.
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