Spanish wells

We had a pleasant sail from Looking glass windows to Spanish Well yesterday to first anchor during a west wind blow at Meeks before anchoring infront of Spanish well area.

We hiked all around this big town and beach and had dinner with other cruisers at a restaurant.

Sailing into Spanish harbor with our new sailing friends
Social hour on each others cruisers boat
Evening sunset at Meeks bay
Spanish wells beach on Atlantic side
More beach walking
Many old houses and vacation rentals here and hundreds of golf carts for folks who appear to live here year round !
This town is filled with many older houses some dating back to the 1800’s.
Evening back on anchorage

We learned a bit more about the history of this island and its inhabitants. It appears that this island was populated during the loyalist period during 1776 when some left the United States and wish to remain loyal to the British.

Some of those colonist who left and sailed here was the 4 Pinder brothers. One landed here and this island and to this day is filled with many Pinder descendants. We visited the cemetery and almost half or more were pinder family stones.

Pinder family graves
Graveyard
Many rental properties facing the Atlantic with large reef’s making for a shallow and sandy bay
Amazing beaches on the Atlantic side
The Bahamas bay side has many boat services and docks in a protected area
Scott is putting the bikes together on shore to bike with pirate behind offering advice about where to find treasures
We biked one morning and biked to the adjacent Russel island – some friendly goats
Curious goats
Biking and stopping at the end of Russel island
Another sunset on the boat

By Cookies

I’m California native with a sharing and exploring spirit.

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