Location: Coopers Town, Great Abaco Island, Bahamas
Position: N 26 52.455 W 077 30.547
When we arrived at Coopers Town with our friends on Diva we could see a crowd of kids playing and diving into the water from the public dock. Suddenly 8 of them jumped into the water and started swimming over to Diva, being the closest boat to the dock. We could see the kids laughing and joking with Carl and Debbie and climbing into their dinghy. This is just an example of how friendly everyone is here.
Walking down the street everyone that you pass, be it walking or in car, without fail says “Hello, how are you?”, or honks and waves. Every age from tiny kids who are barely walking to old people with a cane – even surly teenage boys smile and talk to us when we greet them. What a lovely welcoming feeling you get. Coopers Town is not glitzy and touristy like Hope Town. It doesn’t have lots of shops and quaint houses. But the people here are the friendliest we have come across in the Bahamas so far. And seeing as how friendly almost everyone has been to us on this trip, that’s saying a lot!
On Saturday night we went to a little eatery named Ritchie’s. We had seen the owner outside chopping ribs to BBQ earlier in the day. On Friday and Saturday evenings, they cook up a mess of ribs, fish, chicken, conch, etc. and people driving by stop and pick up a “to-go” box. We sat outside, by the road and enjoyed our dinner in between waving to and chatting with passers by. After we got back to the boat we enjoyed watching all the coming and going along the water front.
In friendship,
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Mark & Julie share the email "Khronicles" sent to family and friends from aboard "Rachel", their Tayana 37 sailboat, from "Timmy" their 1987 Toyota Escaper micro mini motorhome, from "Rachel", their 1995 Gemini 105M catamaran, from their 2007 Winnebago View motorhome "No Sails" from their never-named Rockwood 18' travel trailer, and from their as-yet-unnamed 1998 Fleetwood Tioga motorhome.
