Marsh Harbour, March 22, 2013



View from our boat in Marsh Harbour

Marsh Harbour is the biggest town on the island of Abaco and it even has a traffic light! If you need supplies, this is the place. They have a large grocery store like we would find back home, a very well stocked hardware store that probably carries everything you would need except the two bolts that Roly looked for to repair our windlass! He improvised! They also have some pretty good restaurant/bars! Of course we tried as many as we could! Great drinks and cracked conch at Curlytails, huge Angus beef burgers at Zappas, awesome ribs at the Jibroom! We are always on the lookout for local delights. Can't get enough of coconut bread or monkey cheese! Even the liquor stores are a must stop. Roly was surprised to find some Forty Creek Rye and wines made in the Niagara Region. Another great stop was Mangoes Marina. Excellent prices and even better service thanks to Ray, by far the best dock master we've come across! The winds were quite strong while we were there, one of our dock lines was frayed so bad Roly had to cut it back. 

Party at the Jibroom

Up at Curlytail Lounge

We had a chance to meet up with our insurance adjuster who flew in from Florida. He examined and took pictures of the boat and gave us a ball park estimate of the repair cost, NOT CHEAP!

While in March Harbour we took on fuel for the first time since we left Florida Feb. 5. $6.27 per US gal. OUCH! In the Bahamas you usually have to pay for water. We have been charged up to $.35 per gallon for water in some places! Electricity is usually metered at the docks and can run as high as $.65 per kilowatt hour. Back home, I believe we were paying something like $.17 per kw/hr.

Every day at sun down there is a tradition amongst the boaters. Participants gather at the end of their docks to blow their horns, and by horns we mean conch shell horns! They make holes in the end of large conch shells and "play" them much like you would play a trumpet! Pretty hard to miss when your docked at the end of a dock and a chorus of horn blowers start their symphony a few feet from our ears!

Sundown Conch Blowers

Saw this during one of our walks, lol