A short trip from Staniel (8 miles), Black Point is a great anchorage with really good holding. We arrived by lunchtime, so had a leisurely dinghy ride to the cleanest, most well-equipped laundromat we've seen since ......well, ever. It was already clean enough to perform surgery, and the proprietress continued to clean while we were there. There was a small store attached where you could buy local arts and crafts, boat parts, hardware, posters, and some non-perishable items. You could also get a haircut, take a shower, buy coffee and carrot cake, and trade books. A total full-service facility in two rooms. With a view!
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| Canadian, Bahamian, and US flags |
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| Captain Laundromat |
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| Does it look like this outside your laundry room? |
Dinner reservations were made in advance (and bread ordered) at Lorraine's, a place we'd visited before and loved. She can make fried conch so tender you'd never know it started life as a big rubber band. There was a group of 13 for an amazing dinner of fish, macaroni, peas and rice, slaw, corn on the cob, pineapple pie and rum cake. Lorraine's mom baked the bread, which made an amazing breakfast dish the next morning. It wouldn't be possible to eat there very often, because the food's so good and plentiful that you'd have to be hauled out on a stretcher! The food is rivaled only by the ambiance.
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| Cute little guys playing outside the cafe (Lorraine's son Joshua is on the left) |
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| Dinner crowd, with Lorraine |
Sunday the Admiral attended church in Black Point to deliver cards from our granddaughter Madison's Awana group in Georgia. Imagine how surprising it was to see that the Pastor had baked the bread for breakfast, and Lorraine was the drummer! It was also a surprise to have a tambourine, but it certainly came in handy. The congregation is small in size, but huge in the Holy Spirit. They were very welcoming, and the children plan to reply to the cards from the children in Georgia. That would be a nice pen-pal setup.
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| Beautiful sanctuary of Gethsemane Baptist |
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| The lovely ladies get a golf cart ride home |
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| The Admiral gets a dinghy ride home |
