The "Not-so-Big One That Got Away...I mean...Got Eaten!"

Our first caught fish in the Bahamas!  We got "ripped off" by a Barracuda!

We met "River Rat" in Bennett's Harbor, who gave us on of his hand-made-super-secret-lures.  It worked!  Fishing had not really been our "thing" in the Bahamas, but now we were "hooked" as that line rachet kept going off over and over, we would stop sailing and reel another one in...two with missing bodies where the Barracuda got to them before we were able to reel them in!  One got away trying to "land him" in our little basket.
So... here in Eleuthra, crossing from Rock Sound to Hachett Bay, we caught 5 (FIVE) FISH!  Problem:  we didn't know what we caught and if it was safe to eat, so we took photos of the fish, consulted our one page chart, filleted them and only ended up throwing the "Bonita" meat away.  A local fisherman told us it was very fishy tasting tuna.  The barracuda's stole off with half of our catch-they're faster than we are at getting to them, since we have to back the sails to slow HD down so we can reel them in without fighting the wind and the speed over ground PLUS the fish fighting for his life!  So along comes Mr. Barracuda for a little snack and YIKES, all we get is half!

Met our new Bohemian friends, LaTisha and Pascal, who run the best restaraunt on the islands-Wow!  "Pascal's", formerly Four Points Marina and Restaraunt, has a chickee hut out by the water, so we went by to see what was going on and met them just as they were about to close (they host a cruise ship luncheon on Sunday) for their "day off".   We were talking to them about the area and our cruising plans, when they offered to drive us with them for their "date night" to Harbour Island, about 45 minutes north.  So we got a full tour of the rest of the island all the way to North Eleuthra, pulled off to have a look at the famous "glass window bridge", and had a lovely dinner with the young couple in Harbor Island where they used to live and work.  What a wonderful time and how we learned so much about the culture this way.  We decided to definitely sail back up to  Harbor Island area once we had seen what it had to offer.

Hangin' out on the bridge

There's like NO traffic-people drive like 60-80mph on the one and only highway-you're looking at it!
We just pulled off the side of the road and took pictures.

We went to an Anglican Church built in the 1600's-right on the ocean.  Beautiful and 'mon, do they know how to worship!  I have video, but wouldn't upload...sorry you can't see and hear it!

The Bishop was visiting and invited us to join them for lunch after church.  Nice people.

Adorable Bohemian girl sitting in pew ahead of us.

Pete trying to figure out the "Ocean Hole" in Rock Sound

I found it rather boring-just a deep hole with fish-nobody knows how deep in the middle of the island.

More dinner!

You can tell a shark got this one by the "ragged edges" per the locals-Barracuda's make a clean line.  Either way...