February 13-14, 2001 -- Exploring Southern Eleutheria

Today Sandra announced that she wanted to tour Deep Creek. We thought that sounded like fun and decided to go along. She went up to the dock office to investigate the price of a taxi. She returned and let us know that she had rented a car, since the price of the taxi would come close to the cost of the car for 24 hours. So, off we went! Our first stop was Deep Creek. We stopped at the little marine store there in search of a new cooling fan/blower for our soda system area. There isn't enough natural ventilation so the fan helps draw air across the heat exchanging coils. We didn't have any luck there, so we continued on our tour. We passed through Green Castle, but there really wasn't any place that we wanted to stop. We did however look for the castle, but never found it. Onward we traveled to Rock Sound. Rock Sound is a friendly community. This is a good thing since we had to ask directions several times! We wandered through the two hardware stores and the grocery store, but still did not find our fan/blower! We did, however, pick up a few other things. We dropped off our laundry at the local Laundromat and headed to Sammy's for lunch. The restaurant came highly recommended. After we had been seated, Sandra exclaimed that she had been here before. This was the same restaurant she had eaten in when she visited 6 years before! One thing we found here is that you don't go to the Bahamas for fast service. We were sitting for almost 15 minutes before our menus arrived, and another 20 minutes before the waitress took our order! However, once we did place the order, our food was prepared quickly and was quite tasty. After lunch, we returned to collect our laundry and head back to the marina. On the way, of course, we passed through Green Castle; where we still did not find the castle (there really is supposed to be one, or at least a house that is shaped like one). We passed through Deep Creek and returned to a quiet afternoon on the boat. On February 14, Sandra woke up with an ear ache. We found out that the clinic in Deep Creek, and in Green Castle were both closed so we had to travel to Rock Sound so Sandra could see a doctor. She waited almost 2 hours (a few minutes Bahamas time) to see him, but the price was right. It cost $30.00 for the doctor's visit and $18.00 in medication. Unfortunately, the medication she needed was not stocked at the Rock Sound clinic, so we had to go to Weimyss-Bight. It wasn't too far out of our way; and in fact, we were able to make a straight shot back to the Marina from there! We spent the rest of the day reading. Odd Man Out, a sport fish, that was tied up next to us returned that evening with a good catch of fish. We were pleasantly surprised to be given two huge sized mahi-mahi fillets! Each fillet made 2 meals for the 3 of us!