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Janeyzee's Tropical Travel Pages
The Abacos, Bahamas - Day One

Intro & Web Rings Day One Hopetown, Elbow Cay Day Two Man 'O War Day Three Great Guana Day Four Little Harbor Day Five Snorkeling Day Six Tilloo Cay & Marsh Harbor End of the Trip

Hopetown, Elbow Cay The first full day of our vacation we ventured out to Elbow Cay, the island with the candy cane striped lighthouse. The settlement of Hopetown on the northern end of this cay (pronounced "key") has a beautiful harbor with restaurants and shops and quaint homes. We rented our snorkel gear, had lunch at the Harbor's Edge restaurant, then climbed the 101 steps to the top of the lighthouse. We love lighthouses, and always try to include them in our vacations when possible ... this one was a beauty! The Elbow Cay Lighthouse is still fueled by kerosene and a lighthouse keeper sleeps at the top so he can crank the mechanisms every two hours to keep the light running. During the day the light is covered so that the hot sun doesn't shine thru the prisms and burn the town! There were great views from the top, you could see everywhere: Parrot Cay, the Hopetown harbor, the Atlantic Ocean beyond that, and the edge of Marsh Harbor off in the distance. After we came back down, we took a stroll on the beach on the ocean side then headed back to our little island for the night. That evening we wandered around Lubber's Quarters, walked the dirt roads and explored some of the beaches. On the way we ran into a resident artist, Pam Webb. She and her husband built a spectacular house called Oceanview Cottage on Lubber's Quarters and they spend part of the year there. They live the rest of the year in Grant, another neighboring town in our part of Florida. She warned us about the poison wood tree that grows wild in the Bahamas while we walked with her and her dog along the "street". Later that week I purchased two of her paintings which are sold in local shops all over the Abacos, a wonderful underwater scene and one of our cottage, a beautiful reminder of our trip.

INTRO & WEB RINGS

DAY ONE

DAY TWO

DAY THREE

DAY FOUR

DAY FIVE

DAY SIX

END OF THE TRIP

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