Governors Harbour

Governors Harbour is the quintessential Colonial town with colourful painted houses dotting the hillside surrounded by lush greenery. Friday night is Fish Fry night at a local restaurant so we were looking forward to participating in the local activities. The restaurant was a short dinghy ride across the bay as the tide was out we had to get out of the boat and walk the dinghy in to tie it up. We were rather surprised to find out that the Fish Fry was more geared to the tourists than the locals. I don’t know where everybody came from but the place was packed with mostly Canadians and a few Americans! We had the choice of fish, chicken or pork, the fish still had the head on it, which was not real appetizing to me. We had the pork with the usual Bahamian side dishes of rice and beans, mac n cheese and coleslaw, it was all very good. There was a dj playing and it was a fun evening of dancing and meeting people. At one point the dj asked for volunteers and before I knew it Richard was up there, I knew that he obviously hadn’t been paying attention to what the dj had been saying because it was minutes later when the Michael Jackson dance competition started that Richard made a beeline back to me!!!! He is so not a dancer!

    We spent the days touring the town and swimming around the boat and the evenings getting together with other cruisers. There was a kids learn to sail program going on and the cruisers seemed to be anchored in the middle of it so it was fun to watch the kids (both tourists and local children) sailing around us. One little guy lost his sunglasses overboard to we lent him our mask and snorkel to retrieve it. Richard, Paul and Phyllis headed out to a local beach and I enjoyed some rare alone time reading in our swinging chair.

This boat (more of a raft actually) is the Antiki which made a trip from Canary Islands to St Maarten a few years ago to raise awareness for clean water. It seems permanently anchored here now, can’t imagine crossing the ocean in that. The “head” is a hole in the middle of a long plank sticking out of the stern, better be a seatbelt!

  Monday morning the weather forecast predicted a good day for sailing so we headed out for Rock Sound. It was a beautiful day, the first real good sailing weather we’ve had in a long time, winds were from the east at about 15 knots and we flew along doing about 6kts and arrived by 1 PM.