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On the water... Through out the year, and increasingly more often during the cooler, winter months, boaters and sailors with vessels of all colors, shapes and sizes dot the coastal bays in Eleuthera, Harbour Island and Spanish Wells. The Eleutheras play host to adventurous souls, discovering the beauty of the islands for the first time, or taking in the familiar treasures of quiet, sheltered coves, striking cliffs, and seemingly endless pink sand strands.
Sailing life for me
Juli and Bob Frazee, a sailing couple, from Cassanovia, New York were in Eleuthera during the month of February 2018. It was their very first time to the island, they said, even though they had been sailing together up and down the US coast on holidays for about 40 years. They had done a Bahamas sail four years ago with Eleuthera on the itinerary, they shared, but ran short of time, after touching only a few islands and had to make their way back home, up north. In 2018, they finally took the opportunity to make their way to Eleuthera, describing their sail along the coastline, saying, “We loved coming down the west coast and seeing all
Governor’s Harbour
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the cliffs, and rocky outcrops and the caves, which we had not seen before, and didn’t realize that Eleuthera had so much of that, and that there is pink sand on the other side! That was stunning coming down and seeing that.” While moored at Governor’s Harbour’s tranquil bay front, and refilling their water supplies, the Frazee’s shared a bit about the time they had spent so far on island, “We’ve been down here four days, and we’ve just enjoyed it! We spent one night up in Mutton Fish Bay, and then spent a couple of nights in Hatchet Bay harbour… We usually eat out each night, and we restocked our provisions from the grocery stores.” Juli smiled as she added, “Bob also got his hair cut today at the barber shop here in Governor’s Harbour. So, he’s now looking all sharp, and says the barber made him look twenty years younger!” During the couple’s remaining five days in Eleuthera, they planned to rent a car to tour further down the island by land and hoped to go as far south as Powell Point, at the Cape.
