Spanish Wells Yacht Haven

Wednesday morning we picked up the anchor early and headed for Spanish Wells. The weather is supposed to clear some tomorrow, and today is a good day to do some town stuff.

My ear is sort of holding its own. Not any worse, maybe a tiny bit better. It is really a great incentive to watch blood sugars!

We came in and docked, did laundry, and each of us explored the town a little on our own. There was only one other boat here, who has since left. The wooden docks and side pilings are great

I enjoyed the fish pens some of the commercial fishermen showed me, and one of them had a 100lb jewfish the guy had been feeding since it was 7.5lbs, 2.5 years ago.

Spanish Wells has great conch houses, all nicely painted bright tropical colors. All the houses have yards, most nicely manicured with a lot of flowering plants. Most folks have clean white roofs, where they catch the rain water for their cisterns.

Much of the traffic is gasoline powered golf carts, but there are cars and trucks as well. I'm not sure why everyone drives so fast on a two mile long island, and while they drive on the left side of the road, it is more like down the center. It can be a little disconcerting when you are walking.

We're cooling off this afternoon, catching up on internet stuff.

Adding to the post: I saw flyers around town for an outdoor church meeting to be held in the parking lot of the food store. I figured I had to check that out. I walked up to the store a little after 7pm to see chairs throughout the parking lot. I checked the flyer, and it said 7:30, so I found a seat. Folks began arriving and filling the seats, until there were maybe 200 folks in the chairs, and pulling up in golf carts. A drive in church service! All of the women were wearing hair coverings, except me, of course! The choir sang a great song, and there was a good solo, and duet. There were a couple of congreational hymns, same words I know, but different music.

The local Gospel Church (Brethren) brought in a preacher from Canada, originally from Mississippi, great guy, great speaker, great Word. Great attendence. And a congregation of people who have no clue of the idea of evangelism or outreach. When did the church lose its fire for evangelism? Not one person said a "hello" to me. (and the uncovered hair should have painted me as a potential lost soul....) I understand John and Charles Wesley were on this island in its origination... hey, we've seen them in the blog before!

The speaker, his wife, and his sister gave me a ride home, and toured the boat. Super nice folks.
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