Fiddler's Green, Green Turtle Cay 3/3-3/9/18

We are liking our location more each day.  The docks are brand new and have both power and water.  The water here is $.30 a gallon so we are trying not to need any before we depart.  Electric is metered and it has been breezy enough and cool enough at night that we have not run the AC and have been very comfortable.  I changed the oil and filter on the generator today and that should keep us running until we get back into the US.

This is our location for now.  We like it

After breakfast and Abby's bike ride morning ritual, Debbie and I took the dingy and headed over to the Leeward YC to see what we had been missing. It's a very nice facility on 7 acres with a pool, bar restaurant and cottages.  The docks are in good shape but not brand new and it felt crowded with the boats packed in tight.  We like our dock much better.  They did have a pool and bar though so we tried out a few Bahama Mamas and got a pretty good buzz out of two of those babies.

Nothing like a little booze before lunch

We sat at the end of the bar on the left

Small but very nice pool and resort

After our before lunch cocktails it was time to get back in the dingy and head over to New Plymouth to do some grocery shopping and grab lunch. We landed at the public dock and tied up with the rest of the dingys.  After we walked around "downtown"  It seems times and storms have hit the islands pretty bad.  There are quite a few boarded up or abandoned buildings and fewer businesses open than used to be.  It's pretty but I don't see a strong future here.

Love the bougainvillea against the white buildings.  This is the main drag which serves as main street, sidewalk and a place for dogs to sleep.  Pretty quite here.

We visited the Loyalist Memorial Gardens.  Quite the history.  New Plymouth seems to be populated by many more white Bahamians than I would have expected. The original settlers came from New England.

We looked in at a few restaurants and found the two grocery stores.  We didn't have high hopes for either and decided we would look in after lunch.  We ended up at Shorty's where we had Conch fritters and rum punch.  Both were pretty good and the service was fast and easy. Next back to the grocery stores.  I ended up buying two bananas and two heads of broccoli.  There wasn't really anything else we needed but more fruits and veggies would have been nice.  I guess it will be frozen veggies till we get to Marsh Harbor in a week.

Steaks on the grill tonight and there are a ton of stars out now along with a soon to rise almost full moon.  We are enjoying ourselves very much.