Little Harbour and Hope Town

I guess it's a sign that we have been out a long time when the blog posts start slowing down.  Either that or we're having too much fun to take time to do it.   Or.....perhaps it's just me being lazy.   Whatever the case, I now have a camera full of pictures and ton of catching up to do.

So let's see...it was at first light when we left Spanish Wells.  It was a dead calm day and we ended up motoring across the Northeast Providence Channel....a 50-mile open stretch.  Notice, I didn't say flat calm. (Actually, it's not dead either.)  Even on calm days the ocean is constantly moving like a living and breathing animal.  Folly glided along the surface ..... rising and falling with every breath it took.  We even passed a whale reminding us that we were not alone.  We arrived at Little Harbour, Abaco at 3:00 pm.

Little Harbour has a tricky entrance but, once in, it offers great protection from almost any weather and worth the effort.  It has quite an interesting history but what most people come for is the protection and Pete's Pub.  Pete's Pub is  a funky beach bar and kinda runs the show here.  It faces the mooring field and backs onto the ocean...indeed...very picturesque and people come from all over to experience it.  I particularly liked it there because the ocean beach, if you looked hard enough, had a fair amount of beach glass.  (If you havent noticed, I'm a bit obsessed)

But, like most everything, you can have too much of a good thing.  The light weather we had getting there turned out to be the calm before the blow and we were socked in for four days.  Pete's Pub started getting old.   The sea state was still quite turned up when we left on Sunday and I will admit we were a bit hesitant to go out that tricky entrance again with huge waves crashing against the shore.  Looks can be deceiving though and this time it looked worse than it was.  It turned out to be a fun sail up to Elbow Key.  We pulled into the harbour and the picture perfect town of Hope Town were we have been for two days.

Hope Town is, I think, one of the cutest towns on the face of the planet.  Planted in view of, just about, everywhere in town is an adorable candy stripped lighthouse.  In town, the homes are beautifully kept and painted every colour of the rainbow.  Everything is squeaky clean and on top of that the beach is stunning!  We have had a fabulous couple of days!

Lucky for us, yesterday was Sheri's (one of our travelling friends) birthday.  We had a great time helping her celebrate by going to the Hope Town Harbour Lodge  for lunch and hanging around their resort for a good part of the day. 

Today we are heading into Marsh Harbour to reprovision before we go out and explore more of the Abaco Cays but.....

More about that next time. 

These few pictures (above) were taken in Little Harbour

The ocean side at Little Harbour

Some beach creations.

Hope Town light house

Views of Hope Town (above)

Sheri the birthday girl.

Hope Town Harbour Lodge and our playground for the day.