Conferring w/Short Walk, we agreed to leave between 7 and 7:30am to make it through Current Cut near slack tide. Bandit had not come to collect our mooring fee of $20. I hailed him at 7am Sunday, afraid the whole town would be unavailable all Sunday, but he answered and said he’d be out to collect. We left our moorings about 7:30am, Short Walk having to weave in between 2 fishing boats. Current Cut is a small cut between Current Island and Eleuthera Island where the current can be 4-6 knots and it’s best to time one’s passage at slack tide, which is hard to predict w/high tide being 2 hours different from one side of Eleuthera to the other. Needless to say, we weren’t on the mark and fought the ebbing tide, getting down to 2.6K. Ken and I were debating whether we were early (Ken’s vote) or late (my vote).
We motored across the Eleuthera bank into Alabaster Bay and dropped the hook near a beautiful beach and the resort Coco diMama. Short Walk went on to Hatchet Bay. The next morning we dinked ashore and asked at the resort the way to the Atlantic beach, walked along the road through an old abandoned US missile base to the shore littered w/ the detritus of modern life, gutted small huts, and large cement blocks.
Back at the resort we lounged on the chaise longues under the shade of a tiki hut waiting for 12 noon and lunch. I had the Coco Insalade: greens, tomatoes, sliced apples, walnuts, and grilled shrimp w/lime vinaigrette, and a pinot grigio.. Ken had the strawberry grouper, broccoli, and potato wedges w/the special of the day: mango daiquiri. Mmmm…
We asked the waitress, who is from Clarence Town, Long Island (and recommended visiting her family’s resort, similar to Coco diMama), about snorkeling, dinked out to the rocks and Ken snorkeled at Alabaster Bluff. Tomorrow: Rock Sound.
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