Governors Harbour - mmmm cakes

The next morning we were up bright and early and sailing to Eluthera which was a round 30 miles away, we had to make our way back out into the Exuma sound but with no swell and light winds we had a perfect sail across to Eluthera. Here we had to drop sails and motor across a sandbank and back into shallow water on the Eluthera bank. We then had a 20 mile sail across the sandbank, with the wind dropping off Mark hoisted the spinnaker and we glided across the channel water.  Approaching the island it looked significantly different from Exuma, it was more undulating, green and there we lots more trees on the horizon.

It was a long day it as we approached the rocky headland but we made to the bay along with one other boat arriving at the same time, the pilot books advised of poor holding but we dropped the anchor in less that 3 metres of water and we held.  We were joined that night whilst eating our dinner by a lone dolphin swimming in the bay which always makes us smile.

Approaching Cupid Cay and Governors Harbour

Governors was once the capital of the Bahamas after the Elutheran Adventures landed in the 1600s, although a lot of the original houses on Cupid Cay we destroyed in a fire quite recently.  The settlement is actually one of the bigger settlements we have visited, it was suddenly amazing to have a supermarket where we could track down some fresh fruit and veg.  It was quite a busy place with passing local traffic, assume this was due to the shops, garage, bank, etc but in reality it was still small and took less than an hour to walk around the entire settlement.

Mark tracked down the bakery and bought himself a sticky bun but he had to wait to consume as we found a lovely café overlooking the bay and tucked into muffin and cookies! Delicious J

Magnum all alone at anchor whilst we enjoyed our cakes

There we some beautiful colonial buildings to admire, with an amazingly well stocked library in a beautiful building.

What a lovely library in such a small place

Wow what a fancy house - there were lots of these wooden plantation style houses

As always the people were very friendly and not sure they had too many cruisers pass this way (not like the busy Exumas) as they seemed really keen to chat.