

We had to stop and snorkel in the bouldeer pile, with its juvenile tropical fish, some makeral, and a leopard ray.
I loved these steps, carved probably centuries ago. We climbed them to a field of briars and palmettos that look like no one has been in the area in a long time.
We returned to the boat for lunch, and took the Whaler to the town dock to begin our land exploration.
If you walk through town, walk about 3 miles north on Queen's Highway until you see two silos on the east side of the road, look to your left and find a two rut dirt road between two low rock columns. Follow that road to the left, and keep an eye to your right, and you will find a sign marking Hatchet's Bay Cave. This land cave has been explored over a mile, has steps into the entrance, and has a line through the main corridor. It would be like cave diving, without the water!
There were bats in the entrance, and a few cave decorations. The big detraction was the graffitti scrawled along the walls. We explored the cave for a little, and then began walking back to Hatchet Bay.
We met an official I won't name, who we talked to for a long tiime, and he told us aabout some wonderful things in Eleuthera, and a little of the history. He said to me sadly that he had never been to Hatchet's Bay Cave, and what a shame it was that so many locals were losing a sense of their history.We continued our journey back to Hatchet Bay when that gentleman came by and offered us a ride back into town! We looked past the "no riders" sign and gleefully climbed in! I know we had walked over five miles, and I sure was grateful for that ride home!
We came back to the boat, and Allen pointed out the bird nest sticking out of the radar reflecter! I climbed to the roof, picking up dropped twigs as I went, and deposited them in the nest. The mockingbird started screaming at me, and dove for me as I started off the roof. I wonder what she's going to do when we get underway?
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