Time flies !

  Oh my....it's already been a month since my last post......

These pics are from the exhibition's opening at the Hummingbird Art Centre that took place Feb 2nd. It was very well attended and several pieces sold within a few hours! More sold throughout the month and the remaining paintings will stay at the gallery and hopefully sell before our return next year!
Robbie Bethyl, the art co-ordinator did a great job organizing the event and serving wine and cheese!  

This is  Susan Abbott. She is an artist from Vermont  and comes to the Bahamas every year to give art classes that are very well attended by locals and tourists. Here Guy watches as she does a Plein Air piece of a local house.

A walk on the beach is always a fun way to spend part of an afternoon!You may have noticed the long pants and sweater. When  a cold front rolls through it may be sunny but the air is cool and you may get a few sprinkles of rain with strong winds but swiftly moving fronts. Short bursts of rain and then the sun shines again.

We usually pack a picnic lunch and head out to the sunfish and Abaco dinghy races on Sunday afternoons in the bay off the Hope Town entrance.

Sometimes we walk along the frack filled shore in search of seabeans. We have found quite a few this year!

Lots of sanding ahead to make them turn into little jewels!

A random statue on a property facing the sea!

These signs are everywhere along the rough roads on the island!

A meeting of guitar players.....Guy, Steve and others often get together, bringing with them a crowd complete with appetizers, smiles and interesting conversations!

Above, myself and our friend Randy look on as the crowd sings along, share sailing stories and sample the many yummy dishes!

Always well attended is this years Song Writers Festival! We attended 2 of the 5 venues!

The first venue we attended was at The Hope Town Inn......same place as we are docked at. Another cold front moved into the area making it a super cold evening but somehow, with the fire pit warming the crowd it was super entertaining!

Here we are dressed in layers to keep warm with our good friends Randy and Lee of S/V Silver Maple, also Canadians from Buckhorn On.

We shared this table for the second Song Writer's festival venue with some cruising friends at the Firefly Restaurant, one of my favorite restaurants on the island.  The place was packed .We waited so long for our dinner order to come that the restaurant placed 3 bottles of free wine on the table!  So we happily toasted to a great evening filled with talented  entertainers again! Because this place is on the south end of the island, a great service that they offer is a pick up and delivery to and from their restaurant by golf cart! 

Well.....now it's time to get some work done!

The dreaded sanding!  This time though Guy used mostly a scraper (loaned to him by our friend Randy) as the many coats of varnish applied last year had started to lift!   Grrrrr.......The boater across the dock from us said,"Hey, I thought this was supposed to be a vacation not a work time." My reply was,"Nope, it is a lifestyle! You have to keep up with the boat jobs. Plus we are only here for a short time and fun and work each have to take turns or your boat looks run down in a hurry."

All work and no play is no fun...so another afternoon get together by the pool area with (from the left), Randy, Lee, Dana, Ted, Diane, Nancy, Goldwyn and Guy!

We may not be sailing much this year, but we have been to other islands on our friends boats. Once to provision in Marsh Harbor on S/V Sequel II with Joe and Paula and a week later, with Wendy and Peter to have lunch at Pete's Pub in Little Harbor. What would have taken us all day to sail there, took 45 minutes in their 42 foot Sabre motor yacht on the clam, flat sea of Abaco.
 And of course there is the ferry that takes us over and back to events in Man O War or on the Great Island of Abaco. 
Never a dull moment!

One more month left to enjoy this beautiful place!

See you next time!  


Guy and Louise xoxox