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the island things we do...
Eleuthera as a destination is perfect for anyone who is looking to truly relax, who wants to get next to some incredibly unspoiled natural habitats, to explore endless miles of soft, coral hued beaches, and as Trish and Pierre shared, a bit of shopping and great food, are also on the itinerary. “We’ve been to the Queen’s Baths, and to the Ocean Hole in Rock Sound. We drove down to Princess Cay at the southern tip of the island. We’ve also gone up to the Glass Window bridge, and most of the other tourist highlights… Every day we walk a beach. We’ve been to eleven different beaches so far, and we keep trying to find new ones. A typical day for us while here is we would spend two hours walking on the beach… then have lunch, then go to another beach. Once in a while, we’ll go shopping. We know the gift shops well. We checked out Norma’s Gift Shop, Valerie’s Gift Shop - the seamstress, and also we went to one in
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Rock Sound called the Blue Seahorse. There we met one of the young ladies who had been in the magazine, and she autographed it for us. During a typical day, we also visit places like The Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, which is really nice - it’s beautiful. We also go to the Island Farm for our fresh greens, bread and cinnamon rolls or skinny rolls - they’re not skinny, but they are good! We’ve also eaten at places like Sammy’s in Rock Sound, Buccaneer, Tippy’s, 1648, and Da Perk in Governor’s Harbour, and Rainbow Inn in Rainbow Bay. After four or five days of that, then we have a relax day.” The Brunet’s chose three weeks as their time carved out to vacation in Eleuthera, which is a good, long time to really dig in to a location. They shared that even though they are now retired, Pierre from teaching in the doctoral program at Concordia University in Montreal for 37 years, and Trish who also worked in education for more than 40 years, they are still kept quite busy,
with five children, fifteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren between them. So we wanted to know why that length of time was chosen and worked for them.
Three, Spot On... “We are retired, but I still sit on boards and things happen, so we are not retired all the time… We thought a month would probably be too long, because we would miss our kids and our grandchildren. One week is definitely not long enough, but three seems to be spot on. It’s just long enough for us, as we own two homes and there are things to do and we can then get back and get going with business stuff. Because you could stay here two months - Trish has told me that many times. When we leave, and we take that little airplane - as it gets off the ground, Patricia has had tears in her eyes. So we both love it here, and we could spend longer.”
