Hope Town Village

Hope Town has just the right mix for the perfect island place. There are no cars or golf carts allowed in the town. It is all walking or biking. This is primarily a golf cart island. The few true vehicles are work vehicles or a few cars that are use to transport guest to a restaurant on the other end of the island.

There is a beautiful harbor with a short walk across to the Atlantic Ocean. There are two small grocery stores and a post office, police and commissioner, many rental houses. The town is set up for use by boaters. Instead of parking lots, there are dinghy docks. Communication over here is primary by VHF radio. At 8:20 in the morning everyone tunes into channel 68 for the daily information. They give weather, tides, best time to fish, businesses can call in to put a plug in for themselves, Community events, arrivals and departures, and question and answer session by the community. interesting things happen. During one of the blows a homing pigeon got blown to the Bahamas and they were looking for someone to take the pigeon back to Florida on their boat.

Post Office, Commissioner and Police all in one building. I mailed two postcards and was short a 10 cents and she didn’t have change for a 20. She told me just to bring it back later. Wow that wouldn’t happen with the USPS.

Vernons grocery, doesn’t have a great selection of groceries, but he does make fresh baked goods every day. We ate way too much bread. It was delicious.

We found this Lizard Lodge in front of a house. Adorable. Apparently a lizard used to live in it, but not right now.

A reminder of what life was like in the 1800’s

At the end of a street there is this lovely place to sit and watch boats go in and out of the harbor.

The bars here are interesting. Quite a few have pools, access to ocean, or things like bingo. Everything is very inviting. There is little policing of the use of pools etc. They are happy to sell you a drink or food if you want to swim in the pool. Very laid back.