2-21-17 to 2-24-17 Green Turtle Cay. It is inhabited!

2-21-17 to 2-24-17 Green Turtle Cay. It is inhabited!

Although there were people living on Manjack Cay, there was no town. Green Turtle Cay is our first stop where there is a town……oops they call them settlements.

We stayed at Leeward Yacht Club.  It was really nice, in pristine condition, with showers, Laundry a pool, bar and restaurant. They also had several very nice places to rent.

We took our dinghy across Black Sound to the settlement of New Plymouth.  It is tiny. Only a few stores.  The grocery stores were no more than our convenience stores and the prices were similar.  Expensive.  We should have provisioned more food.  Live and learn.  Scott desperately needed a haircut and the locals told him where to go.

This is where Scott got his hair cut. This is the view from the street. We almost missed it because it was hidden away.

We walked the entire town in about 10 minutes. We had our first conch fritters at a little stand that had great food.  Our friends from Trawler Live Cathy and Michael went with us to a tiny place to get a Bumbay Smash….yes a Rum drink.  The gal took over the place from her mother and claims her mother made up this drink.  They were pretty good.

There was a very nice park commemorating the British Loyalist who moved here.
Neat little houses dotted the settlement.
As tiny as it was, the settlement did have a fire department. It was a building on a dock which was all locked up. hmmm

Scott has been dieing to spear a fish and we never see any or can get close enough for him to spear them.  We were fishing one day and there were snapper all over and they would go after our bait but wouldn’t bite.  So Scott decided to try spearing. He got this one and shot two others, but they got off the spear.  Being the beginner spear fisherman he isn’t sure why that happened.  He was just so happy to have speared a fish!!

Scott’s first fish spearing. He was so excited. It is a Black Snapper.

We had a lovely stay here in our first Settlement. Interesting way of life.

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Karen and Scott

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