In March, 2015 we returned to Eleuthera for the 2nd time in 7 months with my son, my Mom, her friend and another couple. We rented The Cay House on Gaulding Cay Beach, which will be the house that I compare other beach houses to, for infinity. While the house was dated and had some basic infrastructure issues, the location was absolutely amazing. A-MAZE-ing! At The Cay House, I had my quiet mornings at 5am with coconut rum coffee watching the sky get light and sunsets were a flurry of activity as 6 of us ran outside with cameras to catch the magnificent sunsets! Sometimes your photos would be full of silhouettes of each other taking pics of sunset in front of you! First the sunrises, which werent as spectacular, as we faced a western coastline (except the 1st two images from the Glass Window Bridge nearby where we witnessed a gorgeous sunrise, but more on that later...) And the sunsets... ...ohh my goodness...the sunsets were so lovely every night! Of course we had to make a trip down to Lighthouse Beach! The almost 2 hour drive was so worth it! In the morning we took a combined snorkel/SCUBA trip with Ocean Fox out of Davis Harbor which was pretty amazing. The water was a little choppy but Ethan did great snorkeling water way over his head.
Friday night we headed back down to GH for the Friday Night Fish Fry, which we missed on our visit last year. On the way we stopped at the abandoned US military base and found, of all things...GOATS in the 2nd story of a ruined building!! OMG so funny!!! We stopped at Caribbean Blue, the house we rented in 2014 and saw a great sunset and made our way to the Fish Fry. I have to say, I was entertained but generally unimpressed. I think I much prefer the quiet, underpopulated version of Eleuthera - where you rarely see any tourists and you dont ever feel like one. I felt very much like a tourist. So, anyway, we can check that off the list... Another stop during a day trip was Slide and Round Hole Beach. We took a path that led us to Slide Beach and didnt walk over to the round hole, but Slide Beach was cool enough on its own. You cant really swim at this beach, but we had photographers with us and there are rock formations, so swimming wasnt a priority! I dont think Ive ever seen so much sea glass in one place - Mike said he found a lot more on a different trip he took near Surfer's Beach but for me, this was so much glass! In true 'lutra fashion, the path to get to the beach included driving past a shanty house, a huge pile of trash and rusted out metal things, an unattended fire burning, a random herd of goats and on the way out, a big, dirty, skinny pig rambling around on the "road". The Queens Baths We stayed in a house in the Northern part of the island where there were just SO MANY things to see...The Queens Baths were practically across the street from our house, so I am ashamed to say we only went there one time...I could probably spend an entire day there! It's not overwhelmingly obvious how to actually GET to the baths from not-easy-to-spot entryway on the street. We kind of went in and walked all over before we realized there was an actual path to get down there. From these pictures it looks like we are playing in a fun little tide pool off the beach and it looks safe and sheltered...that is not the case AT ALL! Just beyond the pretty circular pool is the Big Deep Blue Atlantic Ocean ready and waiting to suck you out! In the background there are 50+ foot cliffs with a sometimes rough ocean smashing against it. We played and had fun in the pool for a little while, but once the tide starting coming up and one rogue wave washed up over the edge, we all scrambled outta there as fast as we could! Like I said, I wished we visited here a few more times at different tides just to see how it looked. With the caves, trapped tropical fish and the cool pools, this is a great place! Ben Bay Beach Another beach that takes some patience getting to is Ben Bay Beach on the north coast of the island. A few long trails off the main road lead to a beautiful crescent bay with a protective reef, usually with no one else there. On this visit to Ben Bay, we were sad to find a dead sea turtle on the beach. It looked as though it had been hit by a boat propeller. Unfortunately because I was upset by seeing this as a tragedy and wasnt thinking clearly, I should have posted the turtles' location to an online forum of locals because many people in the Caribbean islands look at this circumstance as a food source - in the same way some people in the Northeast US look at a deer hit by a car as a way to fill their freezer with meat!. Either way, it was sad to see. The beach itself was more turbulent than my last visit so the snorkeling wasnt amazing. Still a lovely small cove beach!
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