Hog Cay - Jumentos

We moved from Ragged Island only one Cay north to Hog Cay because of the annual Valentine’s Day fundraiser for Duncan Town, which is held at the Hog Cay Yacht Club. So it isn’t really held on Valentine’s Day, but whenever Maxine can be available (she runs the local food store and does other town things), and it isn’t really a yacht club. But it is the very best cruiser beach & hut you’ve ever seen in the Bahamas! It was apparently built by locals and cruisers some years ago, and it is a great place to spend the heat of the day if you’re not walking the miles of trails, or spearfishing, or working on your boat.

The wide bays holds many boats and this year there’s about 12-15 here for the fundraiser. We’ve had some fine evenings at the HCYC playing music (banjos, guitars, harmonicas, shakers, tambourines, and didjeridus). Unfortunately, no good drums, just some beach trash bucket things. During beach hikes we’ve picked up many sea beans, some SpaceX Starship tiles, and a few shells. Sv Morningside did some lobstering on the ocean side and got 4 today.

On the day before the fundraiser, volunteers raked the beach, dug out the fire pit, put up large canopies of black mesh as sun shades. We arranged tables and chairs, setup items for auctioning, gathered and cut firewood, and had sundowners! We got started at 11am the next day, with boats arriving all the day, eventually about 27. Food was brought in by Maxine and her crew, and more goods for auctioning arrived. As the grill heated, we got to cook conch fritters as hors d’oeuvres. We had a really tasty lunch of typical fare (dirty rice, Mac-n-cheese, minced fish salad, potato salad, 3 types of chicken wings, fried chicken) with a special dish, curried goat (the goat was shot by Dan).

This was followed by the auction, with Paul as auctioneer. All the goods auctioned off were donated by the cruisers and the proceeds were donated to Duncan Town for this year’s project, a common area gathering spot. Note: most of the town was wiped out by hurricane Irma, and 40-some hardy souls are reviving it slowly. The bidding was fun, and many times humorous as folks were encouraged to buy back what they had donated. It was a fine day and we got to spend time with the locals as well as the cruisers.Weiterlesen