SAILING AROUND THE WORLD WITH SPIRIT OF ARGO

Eleuthera Island, Lighthouse Bay – Another beach to ourselves

They hope that this will put us in a good position for a longer sail tomorrow up around Powell Point, through the sandbars (Davis Channel) and into Rock Sound.  They hope, with the light winds, the small hop today will knock off a few hours from tomorrows sail.

Sailing away from Little San Salvador.  Leaving the Cruise Ship, and it's horde of passengers, to enjoy the Half Moon Bay without us for company
Sailing away from Little San Salvador. Leaving the Cruise Ship, and it’s horde of passengers, to enjoy the Half Moon Bay without us for company

We had a ‘bit more’ wind then predicted and reached the South West point of Eleuthera Island in good time.

Sailing-downwind goose winged

We anchored up off the palm fringed beach of Lighthouse Bay
We anchored up off the palm fringed beach of Lighthouse Bay

The Cruising guide did not warn us, as usual, how ‘reef strewn’ getting into the anchorage would be.  It was not difficult, but we were glad to have good light to get anchored among the coral heads.

view of boat from beach

This made it easy to snorkelling from the boat.

The anchorage is beautiful, with a great swimming beach, but…

kayak on beach

You may have to put up with a bit of Southerly swell sneaking in and rolling you a bit.  But if you like to have places ‘to yourself’, it is worth a stop here.

benches on beach

There is a short hike up to the rocky point and a light house to explore.

Looking out at the point from the lighthouse
Looking out at the point from the lighthouse

 

Looking back at the lighthouse from the point
Looking back at the lighthouse from the point
From here you can look back on Little San Salvador.  You can still see the Cruise Ship dominating the low lying island in the distance
From here you can look back on Little San Salvador. You can still see the Cruise Ship dominating the low lying island in the distance
The south-west coast of Eleuthera is very reef strewn
The south-east coast of Eleuthera is very reef strewn
This creates some fabulous long beaches to explore
This creates some fabulous long beaches to explore
The lighthouse trail takes you down the cliffs onto the east coast beach and around back to our anchorage in Lighthouse Bay
The lighthouse trail takes you down the cliffs onto the east coast beach and around back to our anchorage in Lighthouse Bay

beach view from boat

Only a short stop over here though, as the humans want to drag me away from a perfectly good beach again, and make the passage through the Davis Channel into Rock Sound.

No rest for my weary paws!

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