"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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Is the horse lady (can't recall her name anymore) still run Buckabook?
Those wild horses are way cool. It's worth a trip to the wild to try to
catch a glimpse of them.

Well, in fact, yes, and we're going out there on Tuesday with Mimi, still
doing it after 17 years, thence to dive the blue hole.


The Hub of the Abacos is one fine cruising grounds and base of operations
to the Out Islands. Real grocery stores for one thing. The frozen meat is
not much more costly than here in the States. Staples aren't too bad. It's
just mostly the junk food that's out of sight. I guess they put more of a
tariff on that crap. It must work because most Bahamians aren't fat.

Some meats are horrendously high, but we find the frozen end cut porkchops a
reasonable value. Most of the rest of the meats there are double to triple
what I'd find in the US.

Did you ever have Wholesale deliver to the dock? We're wondering about their
policies on that, and have heard from several that they represent a real
savings. Not a great deal we need, actually, currently, other than Coke,
which supply was totally decimated after all of our guests at multiples a
day - Lydia's still got much more than half the beer which came with us, but
I'm down to a few 12 packs.


Hope to get back there for six-months to a year one of these days. Been
looking the place over closely on Google Earth and it looks like lots of
secluded cruising over on the western side of Great Abaco. With 3.5 feet I
can take my blue water yacht into some very shallow areas. I can get lost
for weeks walking secluded beaches with a bottle of rum and a gallon jug
of water.

Heh. With 7', we're a bit restricted - but, folks ground with every known
draft, so it's a matter of picking your way in expected OK waters. We were
surprised to be able to get into (and out of!) Hopetown with no issues,
albeit at close to high tide, last weekend.

Lotsa secluded beaches, and, right now would be a good time to go, but a bit
cool for reefs. We have wetsuits, though, so if Lydia gets tired of sitting
in the container which masquerades as the book shop with nobody coming (a
little early in the season still), perhaps we'll pull up the hook and go.

Currently exploring all the local restaurants for TxG events so we can put
them out on the net. Several of them very reasonable, and Nippers and
Anglers (here) very expensive. Have had some nibbles about joining folks
for Thursday, so haven't made up our minds what we'll do, yet.

Going to go help the Rotary Club (collections outside PriceRight by the
special needs school, which teachers we've befriended here) distribute
pallets of food post TxG, too.



Wilbur Hubbard

Looking forward to seeing you out here. We'll be in the Bahamas for a
year...

L8R

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