Thursday, February 12 — This morning, we were up early, quickly got Kosmos ready to go, and lifted anchor at about 0600. Here was the dawn shortly before sunrise.

We were sad to be leaving this anchorage so quickly — it was a calm and looked like it would be a lovely place to spend a few days. Also, The No Foreign Land app said a couple of the other boats in the anchorage were family boats, so it would have been nice to meet them. But we had important matters to attend to.

It was a smooth ride most of the way to Georgetown. We arrived at the anchorage in front of town a little after 1400. There were lots of boats in anchorage, but we found a spot with no problem. We quickly got dinghy down and walked to the immigration office, which was in the same shopping center where we’d gotten cash from ATM the first time we went to Georgetown.

We walked into the office at around 1450. It took 45 minutes to process the visa renewals, and they charged $200 per person. After we left the office, we went to the grocery store and picked up a few items. We went back to Kosmos to drop off the groceries and paperwork, then went back to shore to have dinner at Peace and Plenty hotel and restaurant.

We arrived at 1640, but the restaurant didn’t open until 1700 pm. Eric and Keith waited in the hotel lobby; Christi went for a short walk to the north to explore some of the areas we hadn’t yet seen. Beyond the restaurant there was a church and a few small commercial buildings.

Then the area became residential, with most of the homes small bungalows on decent sized lots. Here was the view of the harbor from the road. Looking north.

Looking back south towards the anchorage.

Part of the reason it was a short walk was because not far past the restaurant, the sidewalk disappeared and the road was too treacherous to walk on with so much traffic. Back in the lobby of the hotel, we noticed a small plaque commemorating the history of Peace & Plenty. In 1783, Lord Denys Rolls sailed to the Exumas aboard a ship named Peace and Plenty. Lord Rolls established a cotton plantation of the same name on Great Exuma island. Almost 200 years later, in 1958, Henry Flagler’s grandnephew, Lawrence Lewis, opened the Peace and Plenty hotel. The plantation’s cookhouse became the bar. The lobby had originally been a sponge warehouse that was later converted to living space for a prominent island family, the Minns. The sign said it was also thought to have been the site of a small slave trading market, but was unclear on exactly when that may have been. We’ve never written about Henry Flagler in the blog before, but the quick summary was that he was the man who basically built Palm Beach, Florida. There was information about Flagler posted all over the Palm Beach area, so we’d learned a bit about him while we were there.

We were the first ones seated when the restaurant opened. While we weren’t sitting by the windows, we had a lovely view until other patrons arrived.

Dinner was great.

After dinner, we went back to Kosmos. Here was a shot of the lake as we crossed over the bridge on our way back to the dinghy dock.

Once back onboard, we put dinghy up, and went to bed early. The wind was low and the anchorage was nice and calm.