Sunday was another really hot and humid day and with little air movement at the marina, we decided the only course of action was to find somewhere with air conditioning! We therefore decided to get the ferry across to Port Lucaya to have Sunday lunch, we had been recommended Shenanigans, an Irish pub which serves Guinness imported from Dublin and Irish food. We have been quite amazed to find Guinness readily available in the Bahamas and apparently quite popular, but most of that available is brewed locally and according to aficionados’ is not a patch on the real thing.
Condominiums at the Grand Bahama Yacht Club
We headed out but were rather disappointed to find the place closed and several others around it too. After much walking around in the sun, the only place with indoor seating was a restaurant called Le Med, which turned out not to be air-conditioned either, but did have fans which was better than nothing. The food however was fairly disappointing, I guess we should have realised with the plastic covered table cloths! At least we were cool for a while!
I decided to swim off my lunch and so we headed to the pool later and found it fairly busy. There are condominiums all round the yacht club and I think they have a lot of regular visitors. One lady was doing water aerobics and a few others lounging by the pool reading. I took a swim but couldn’t help being distracted by the large number of leaves and creepy crawlies floating in the water and decided to get out and read too. Kevin had spotted that baseball was showing on the tv at the bar and decided to watch. He is trying to get himself up to speed as he’d like to go and watch a game when we get to the States.
Marina office at the Grand Bahama Yacht Club
We were quite surprised to hear Liverpudlian accents (being from the North West, UK ourselves) near us at the bar and soon got talking to Hazel, Steve and Steve who are all living out in Grand Bahama, the two Steve work for the Camel Laird shipyard in Freeport. Steve has been on the island for 8 years and Steve & Hazel for nearly 2 years and they all seem to love the island life. They told us about the diving and lifestyle on the Bahamas and we told them about our travels. Hazel very kindly offered to drive me to the shops the next day when I asked her where the nearest supermarket was so we arranged to following morning.
Now the weather had cooled a little we returned to the boat for some dinner and a DVD.
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