Took Water Taxi to North Bimini; Met Up with Friends

We had a fun day in North Bimini today. Our day started with breakfast at Petite Conch, the little restaurant at Bimini Sands Resort and Marina in South Bimini where we're docked. We ordered pancakes and eggs. When the plate arrived, I was surprised at the size of it. No wonder it was $9.95! Three large pancakes, two eggs, a pile of bacon, a bunch of grapes, and slices of pineapple, cantalope and honeydew. I couldn't eat it all, but Chuck had no problem polishing his off.

The restaurant is on the second floor, over the Ship Store. There's a beautiful view of the harbor where we entered yesterday. The waves were really breaking today and Chuck saw another sailboat trying to make their way through. Glad we weren't trying it today! You can see our two boats in the foreground.

Then the guys took a taxi ride ($4 each way per person) to customs. I sat down at the computer to check e-mail and was going to read the Bimini literature we got at check-in. They were back before I opened the booklet! It took no time at all. So I took down the yellow quarantine flag and raised the Bahamas flag to signify we cleared customs.

Chuck cleaned out the V-berth and I cooked some white rice to use for tomorrow night's shrimp fried rice dinner. Wayne knocked on the boat and said they were taking the water taxi to Alicetown and asked if we'd like to join them. When the rice was done, we all walked to the other side of the island (1/2 mile) to the water taxi and skipped across the water to North Bimini.

We saw the library, which is a small, one-room building with the door left open for locals to walk in and pick up or exchange a book.

We walked up to the beach (beautiful, by the way) and took lots of pictures, then down to the shipwreck. The beach was a combination of sand, rock and coral and waves were crashing everywhere. It looked like lava rock, but Chuck said it was coral. Jazzy walked on the rock, but I'm trying to avoid sand fleas again, so I carried her when we were on beach sand.

We walked down to Blue Water Resort and found Mo, George and Carly on Passages. We talked to them for a while on the dock and they invited us onboard for drinks and snacks. They made rum punch with local coconut rum. Yum! It was so good, Patti and I stopped at the liquor store down the street on the way back to the water taxi and each bought a bottle and a can of fruit punch. I also bought grenadine.

We took the water taxi back to South Bimini and walked back to our marina. I threw laundry ($3 wash, $3 dry) in while Patti made a salad and cooked steak and baked potatoes for dinner. We had chocolate pudding for dessert.

There's a beach club affiliated with the resort and they have a free shuttle. They had karaoke tonight, but I think we were all too tired to care.

Here are some photos of the beach and shipwreck:

Since Blogger isn't photo-friendly, I'm uploading an album of photos to my Facebook page. I haven't found an easy way to upload photos to the blog and it takes forever to upload them one at a time!