Rock Sound to Governor's Harbor to the Glass Window to Spanish Wells

Hi guys, we left out of Rock Sound on Wednesday morning April 7th. Made it into Governor's Harbor around noon... dropped anchor and dinghyed ashore.. I did laundry and Dwayne worked on the SeaVeyor...Being low on water, we then dinghed water back and forth from the Government building there... ( they did not have water availabe at the Government docks, so one must take your jugs to bring it back and empty into your water tanks..) Hard work, but one must have water!! And we have found out that it is a precious (and sometimes expensive ) thing in the Bahamas! At sunset, had cruisers from Hampshire Rose, Easy Breezes, and Anastasia over for Sundowners.. fun evening, again.. We did not take time to see the settlement and pulled anchor the next morning... made a short run to the Glass Window area for our nite's anchorage..

The Glass Window is point in the rock spine in northern Eleuthera, once no more than a natural arch undermined by the ocean, which became a real break. It was named this because you can look thru the window formed by the arch. A road/bridge crosses it now...

After pulling up anchor at the glass window area, we headed for the Current Cut, which is called the Eleutheran Panama Canal... Very strong current here... but we made it thru fine and headed towards Spanish Wells.. We actually docked at the Spanish Wells Yacht Haven just after lunch. Very nice, clean and accomodating marina and staff..... Spanish Wells is not really a tourist resort... it's all about fishing! These islanders produce about 75% of the nation's Spiny Lobsters that are exported worldwide....

Spanish Wells is by far the cleanest and most well maintained island that we have seen in our travels so far..Colorful gardens of flowers, fruit trees, roses,etc surrond the pastel shades of homes thruout the settlement.. they have community pride here.. We shared a golf cart with Maxwell and Jen from Anastasia and toured the settlement.. Had a blast and then stopped at the Anchor Snack bar for conch bites.. lots of fun..We all got together for a good evening dinner of grouper and dolphin (the fish, not the porpoise!) and Jen surpised me with a tomato pie!!!!!!!! I had told her earlier in the day how good they were , and she went back and made one!!

Anastasia and Paragon left out Sunday and headed to Marsh Harbor in the Abacos.. We elected to stay awhile longer and see more of the island and get some boat chores done..... We also got a chance to see the island's own manatee.. Her name is Rita and she is expecting her calf any day now.. hope to get to see her baby!!!

We will probably be here a couple of more days...waiting on winds/and direction to change... Take care... Linda And Dwayne... PS.. sorry about the duplicate pic of Rita... could not get the darn thing deleted/removed... so , there's two of them!!