Highbourne Cay

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Coming into Highbourne

Yellow building is the only office in town!

The sign says "Beware of Sharks!"

Not many boaters here yet!

Going up to the office/gift/grocery store

This is the road that takes you to "your beach home for the week

or however long...."

Going out to the beach

Beach

Other side

Bar...no one there to serve us though!  Darn!

Yikes!

For as cute as they are...they sure do make a lot of noise!

Seaplane flew in with about 8 people on board....they went to the

store and bought a few things, then left....

Our sunsetting

Just beautiful! Bob I mean :-)

 Now that's beautiful!!! 

Highbourne Cay is home to the northernmost marina in the Exumas, Highbourne Cay Marina.  It has undergone many recent changes and upgrades and is a first-class resort.  “Xuma,” is a newly opened restaurant, which overlooks some of Exumas most stunning turquoise waters.  There are six rental cottages and two Brazilian wood houses that were recently built on the resort. 

Today we moved down to Highbourne Cay.  It’s kind of a “ritzy; including attitude” kind of place J  We did fill all our diesel cans and 1 water jug. While Bob was doing that I went to the local market, which happened to be a real building and real supplies inside.  Example:  cranberry juice $16, 12 pack of buns $6.50, Oreo’s 1$12, a bathing suit cover-up $170. blah, blah, blah!  So I purchased 12 stamps and one bag of buns and got out of that place.  You saw what the garbage was! Yikes! Oh, and by the way, we have a 5.3 gallon water jug; they charged us for 7 gallons….they have math issues here also! 

My next hurdle there was trying to get some internet and phone service.  For two days we’ve been able to see the tower and couldn’t for the life of us figure out why we couldn’t get internet.  We didn’t have any minutes on the phone so I had to go and buy some of them.  You see tomorrow is Jenny’s birthday and I want to make sure we can talk to her.  So I bought a phone card and then tried to purchase an internet card. That didn’t go so well!  You see, the tower here is private and in order to get a 24-hour card for $15 you had to get one of their slips here.  For the price of a slip they should be giving you the internet for free! 

After taking care of “stuff that has to be done” we came back to Storymaker and jumped in the water.  We headed to the biggest coral reef behind our boat and had some good lookin’ fish, fans, and a ray, to get pictures of with our Go Pro.  Bob was in charge of that….he/we still need to do some work on handling it under water.

Tomorrow we are headed to Normans.  Don’t want to be too far away from that cell tower sitting on Highbourne! After all, it is Jenny’s birthday tomorrow and I want to be able to call her and sing Happy Birthday to her!