Rock Sound, Eluthera

vegetable garden Bahamian style

Rosies Restaurant

March 20

We spent about 5 nights in this protected harbor, getting fuel, water and some fresh food on the boat as well as exploring the pretty little town and surrounding coast line. All bahamian settlement towns have lots of abandoned buildings and businesses, a minimal grocery store, laundry mat  and maybe a gas station. No banks, no one takes credit cards and the few restaurants we see are empty of customers. If you go in to eat, there is one or two choices of food, and a long wait while it is cooked on the spot. But the prices are not cheap.  

And as we head south, some places charge 2.50 to 5.00 to take a bag of garbage, and water is .40 cents a gallon. Thats water we need for drinking, cooking , washing dishes and bathing. And all that water has to be filled into our 5 gallon portable containers, carried from town to  the dock, loaded on the dinghy and poured into our 50 gallon holding tanks. Fresh water is precious.

There is an alternative, some boats have water-makers that convert salt water to fresh, and some boats go into marinas and stay at a dock where this is more convenient. Marinas are not very desirable to us, plus they cost 40-50.00 per night.

So while you are taking a nice long shower, think of us washing in a small bucket. I'm dreaming of that shower next week.