Underway Again # 25 : Great Iguana Cay





Our last evening at Marsh harbour.

Red sky at night

Sailor's delight

Red sky in the morning

Sailor's warning!

 

It was definetely a delight of a morning.

We travelled from Hope Town to Marsh Harbour to fuel up, spent the night and then on to Great Iguana Cay which is known throughout the Bahamas for the famous Nippers Bar. 

We anchored off the island and dinghied into the town where we left our dinghies on the shore.  We were careful to throw anchors into the sand and secure our boats. 
Great Iguana Cay  is a delightful island with its own unique charm.  The people are very warm and friendly and we met the people mentioned in many of the Barefoot Man's songs.  If you have not heard of the Barefoot Man, look him up on the net and listen to his music.  He is sort of a lay back Jimmy Buffet. 

The buildings are pastel coloured and very well maintained.  We walked through the town and stopped in several little gift stores as well as the local grocery store which carried a wide variety of products beside food.  I bought some cream of tartar for a key lime pie I planned to bake.  

 Where ever you go on Great Iguana Cay, you see golf carts and not cars. 

This is Milo's fruit stand where I haggled for freshly picked tomatoes.

 

 Off to Nippers we went following the signs.

Nippers is not only a bar but a resort of a sort.  It is right on a fabulous beach.  Again the pastel theme is evident in everything you see at Nippers.  We missed the performance of the Barefoot Man a couple of weeks ago when we were stuck in Spanish Wells for 11 days.

We had lunch on a turquoise coloured table. The sea food was wonderful and I had the famous Nippers slush with a shot of something in it!  Ummmm good!

 

Nippers as seen from the beach.

 

The beach as seen from Nippers.
 

If it's too warm, you can always take a dip to refresh yourself if you don't want to go in the ocean.  Personally, I prefer the ocean.

While having lunch we watched the waves come rolling in and breaking on the rocks.  This is what I like best about travelling on a boat.  You have time to stop and enjoy the beauty of the world around you.  Below we are looking down on some of that beauty.

 

 

 

 

 On our way back to the dinghies. 

When we got back, the tide had gone out and we had to pull the dinghy across the sand back into the water taking care not to drag the motor in the sand.  The water was shallow and it seemed like a very long way out to where we could get in and start the engine.  Back to the boat where I baked a key lime pie for a get together we had on Kulanamoo.