Dinner at the French Leave in Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, Bahamas

continued from yesterday... Kosmos hadn’t drifted at all, so we decided it was safe to leave her. We got ourselves cleaned up and headed to the nearby resort, called the French Leave, for an early dinner.

We picked it because of they had a dinghy dock (pictured above). We’d been warned that the beach landings here were problematic. This dock wasn’t exactly easy, either. The ladder wasn’t at the dock, which meant we had to unload at the ladder and manually pull Kosmopolitan over to the dock. There were several obstacles, making it a bit challenging.

The marina was the dock to the right
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Welcome to Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera Island, Bahamas

Sunrise on Monday, April 14

The nearly full moon was visible for quite a while after sunrise.

We again faced the same dilemma that we’d faced last week. The wind was changing to a direction that had no protection in this anchorage, and we needed to move someplace more protected. We’d picked Spanish Wells, to the north. But, due to strong currents and shallow depths in an area called “The Cut,” we could only go through “The Cut” at high tide, which on Tuesday would be 1000. 

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Keith’s Perspective on Cat and Eleuthera Islands/ Le point de vue de Keith sur les îles Cat et Eleuthera

This week has been fun. On Saturday, we walked to the bakery, then did D&D, then went back to the restaurant on the beach that we liked for dinner with a bunch of my friends. 

Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi on a marché jusqu’à une boulangerie, joué à Donjons et Dragons, et mangé au restaurant qu’on aime sur la plage pour dîner avec mes amis.

On Sunday, we moved to a place called Fernandez Bay. It was kind of uncomfortable. Everyone else decided to go snorkeling, but instead mom dad and I cruised around this little estuary. On the ride back I was tired, so I fell asleep with my head on the side of the dinghy. But when I woke up, I had the grippy print on my face. After we got back we played D&D aboard a different boat than usual. After dinner we went to Hasteaway and just hung out until 11:45. By the time we got back, dad decided to get the dinghy up, which wasn’t fun in the dark. 

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Boiling Hole/Cathedral Caves and the Pink Beach, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Continued from yesterday… We reached a sign that said “Cathedral Caves and the Boiling Hole.” It was a short walk down a paved path to the Boiling Hole.

The sign said that it was one of many blue holes on Eleuthera Island. This hole was connected to another blue hole, located offshore about 1/4 mile west. They were connected via a network of underground caves. As the name implied, the water in the hole bubbled and churned as the tides changed. When we walked by, it looked calm.

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