Eagle Rock

Our hearts are in Hopetown. We have sailed to so many beautiful places this past year and Hopetown still remains our favorite place to visit. Not only because one of the best days of my life was at the top of the lighthouse there but also because it just feels like home. It’s all in one package there. Happy people, killer spearfishing, unlimited amounts of lobster and conch, the best restaurants in The Bahamas, fun bars and the list jsut goes on and on. We were lucky enough to spend 2 months there with family visiting. It was quite a treat to be able to have our boat on the dock in front of the rental house for a month too. Family dinners and hot showers at the Point House every evening was one of my favorite things about being right there. Oh and we could also do our workouts on stable land! Ha!

We had the best time with my Dad and Ana bring there for the month. Some days a little too much fun that we couldn’t even focus on fishing! So we ended up at the famous Firefly bar. Say no more, if you know, you know.. When Pat came out the weather was awful unfortunately but we made some of the best memories. We biked the entire island, bar hopping along the way. Dad & Pat took some nice slow falls. Icing on the cake was when Pat drove the bike right into the bushes at Firefly. I was laughing so hard I about pee’d my pants! We’ll give her some credit though… That was the last bar we went to and it was getting dark so our vision wasn’t the best.

When Kyle showed up it was another nasty chilly weekend but that didn’t stop this crew from getting all the spearfishing time we could! One day, Carson and Kyle were in the water for 1 hour and it was jsut fish after fish. They were pulling up hogfish, grouper, mackerel! Quite the variety. It’s jsut so east in the Abaco’s that it makes it that much more fun. Last year Kyle made good friends with the lighthouse keeper and his family. He was able to give us a private tour of how the light the kerosene lighthouse. It was so neat! Pretty remarkable that the wick is as tiny as a candle light that lights that entire lighthouse. The next day they all came over and taught us how to prepare a traditional Bahamian Sunday dinner. This was such treat and a night I will never forget. I was in the kitchen making lobster, cracked conch, fried fish, coleslaw, Mac n cheese, potato salad and let’s not forget the banana pancakes for dessert! This family were some of the most down to earth beautiful people. I felt so fortunate to get to know all of them!

Once all of our family left it was just Carson and I on anchor again. It took a few weeks before we had a weather window to sail south. The plan is to make to Grenada for hurricane season this year. In the meantime, we met some really cool new sailing friends and hangout with some old friends we met in Guatemala that had sailed there too! We also got to check out some of the songwriters music festival while we were there. It was hard to say goodbye to Hopetown but we were ready to be on the move again. We have to be in the BVI’s by April. We have some very special guests coming to visit!

Until next time Hopetown <3 We will see you for our wedding in December :)Read more