Long Island, Bahamas
Long Island, most likely our last stop in Bahamas. The last two weeks we hopped from island to island, traversing through Exuma Cays with its many shades and tints of blue water…light blue, sky blue, turquoise, navy, sapphire blue…you name the hue and it’s somewhere here. The crystal clear water, besides making it so easy to observe the rich sea life, allows us to navigate safely around the many shoals and coral heads. Food in Exumas is incredibly expensive, everything arrives by boat and there is no agriculture on these rugged little islands. We didn’t buy red pepper for $8.50 a pound, neither did we treat ourselves to milk for $9.50! (dried milk is nothing to turn the nose up to, and that gives us so much more space in our fridge for other stuff one can obtain on these island, like cabbage, or maybe some carrots!). Small loaf of bread, that tastes more like a cake, sells for $6US! And so, we are proudly reporting, that today, we successfully baked our second loaf of bread! Czech recipe I obtained from Internet was my contribution, while J-P did his part in this process by mixing and all the five minutes of kneading required for a heavenly taste. We will never be without decent bread again! Also our first - converting salt water to drinking water. Our Reverse Osmosis Water Maker is performing as advertised. And so we will never stay dirty for too long again! We are quite self-sufficient now – the sun (solar panels), yeast, flour and some fish – we can survive whatever, wherever! Here on Long Island there is even some agriculture going on - right now it’s a season for papaya, tomato, okra – and all this for pennies! Finally some decent prices! Today, once-a-week ship arrived from Nassau, with all kinds of goodies, so tomorrow, with a crew from “Chenou”, that we sailed here with, we are renting a car and besides admiring beauties of this island, we will hit some food and liquor stores to stock-up on essentials before heading to Cuba. We read in American paper there is food shortage in Cuba (propaganda?) after getting hit by three hurricanes this summer (possibility?) We will let you know.
Long Island, most likely our last stop in Bahamas. The last two weeks we hopped from island to island, traversing through Exuma Cays with its many shades and tints of blue water…light blue, sky blue, turquoise, navy, sapphire blue…you name the hue and it’s somewhere here. The crystal clear water, besides making it so easy to observe the rich sea life, allows us to navigate safely around the many shoals and coral heads. Food in Exumas is incredibly expensive, everything arrives by boat and there is no agriculture on these rugged little islands. We didn’t buy red pepper for $8.50 a pound, neither did we treat ourselves to milk for $9.50! (dried milk is nothing to turn the nose up to, and that gives us so much more space in our fridge for other stuff one can obtain on these island, like cabbage, or maybe some carrots!). Small loaf of bread, that tastes more like a cake, sells for $6US! And so, we are proudly reporting, that today, we successfully baked our second loaf of bread! Czech recipe I obtained from Internet was my contribution, while J-P did his part in this process by mixing and all the five minutes of kneading required for a heavenly taste. We will never be without decent bread again! Also our first - converting salt water to drinking water. Our Reverse Osmosis Water Maker is performing as advertised. And so we will never stay dirty for too long again! We are quite self-sufficient now – the sun (solar panels), yeast, flour and some fish – we can survive whatever, wherever! Here on Long Island there is even some agriculture going on - right now it’s a season for papaya, tomato, okra – and all this for pennies! Finally some decent prices! Today, once-a-week ship arrived from Nassau, with all kinds of goodies, so tomorrow, with a crew from “Chenou”, that we sailed here with, we are renting a car and besides admiring beauties of this island, we will hit some food and liquor stores to stock-up on essentials before heading to Cuba. We read in American paper there is food shortage in Cuba (propaganda?) after getting hit by three hurricanes this summer (possibility?) We will let you know.
