Our good friends David & Mary Beth from New Bern asked if we were interested in renting a car to see Eleuthera by land so we were up very early to get the car at 7:30 am and then a 1.5 hr drive up to Hatchet Bay to pick them up.  It was a little used hatchback imported used from Japan and had a great display but all in Japanese and a strong will Japanese voice telling us something each time we got into the car.  We did not return the car until 8:30 pm so we traveled all over with many stops and thoroughly enjoyed our day together.  But the highlight was when we stopped at the Glass Window bridge and just happened to turn around and noticed a tiny blowhole sending a thin column of water 25 feet into the air.  Well, combine 4 adults????, 2 empty soda cans and 1 blowhole and before you know it, we have a bunch of cars stopping along the road to watch as we dropped the soda cans into the hole and waiting for the waves to arrive and blow the cans back out and way into the air. (video coming soon).

We visited Preacher’s Cave, a well known site at the north end of the 110 mile long island and Ed and Mary Beth both climbed out one of the holes at the far end of the cave.  Ed was up fist and then Mary Beth who happened to notice as she got out that there was a large snake nestled in one of the handholds at the top of the hole.  Both of them missed putting their hands in that particular handhold by mere inches!!

On the return trip, we found the “Walmart” store and proceeded to each fill a cart of food.  It wasn’t a real Walmart but a mini version, unlike anything else we had come across and inn the middle of nowhere. 

There was a herd of semi wild cows crossing the road and we had a couple “stare-downs”. 

It took several tries before we found the pineapple fields but were rewarded with almost ripe pineapples at the top of the plants.