Underway Again#15: Still in Georgetown

This is the entrance from the harbour to Lake Victoria.

As I mentioned, we are across the harbour from Georgetown and it is about one mile away.  That does not seem far but try going one mile in a dinghy over choppy water!  We usually arrive in town very wet.  The good part is that it takes only a few minutes to dry in the sun but the bad part is that clothes wet in salt water never seem to dry completely. 

 

This the dinghy dock on Lake Victoria around which the town of Georgetown is situated.

On our way to Georgetown to do laundry the next day we found that the glue was coming apart again!!!!!  We went to a laundry about two miles south of town and while I did the laundry, Roman hitched a ride to Brown Marina where he thinks he got the proper Hypalon glue.  It is made in Great Britain and was quite pricey($80.00) but well worth it if it does the trick!   We have yet to see if it works.

We have been stranded on our boat for the better part of the week but boaters have been great about helping us out and taking us with them.  On Saturday, Bill and Maureen took us with them on a bus tour of Great Exuma Island northwest to Exuma Point. 

 

 

We took pictures from the highest Point of the island,

 

We visited the town of Rolleville which is the oldest settlement on the island and the most populated.  Here is a monument to the slave Pompey who led an uprising in the early 1800's.  Slavery was fully abolished in 1838.

 

 

There are nine primary school but only one high school serving the entire island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stopped at  Emerald Bay Marina and this as close as we got to Sandals Emerald Bay.

Exuma Point

 

 

 

 

We had a fabulous buffet serving conch fritters, ribs, several chicken dishes, fish, rice salads and a unique dish of plantains, carrots and cassava which was so good that I had a second helping. 

There we visited the caves where a white man from the States lived the last five or six years of his life. He apparently would walk around naked in Georgetown and he was asked to move on. He walked up to these caves north of Rolleville, asked permission of the owners of the property to live there and moved in.   He built himself a large wooden bed and even put Plexiglas up on the top opening of the cave. Building 62 steps, he planted crops on the land over the cave and lived, always naked, on that and honey. He died several years ago at age 77.