An island full of derelict houses.

The wind really began to pick up, we had another rocky night but very relieved the anchor never budged. We did let out another 10 meters as with the wind changing direction we were getting a little too close to our neighbours for comfort.

We had a pretty exciting dinghy ride to land and luckily had found this little sheltered dug out dinghy harbour where we left Jeldi Jeldi while we went to explore the northern region of the island in our hire car.

The island is looking a little run down and seems overwhelmed with derelict houses. So much so that Phoebs and Sam started a game of shouting ‘derelict’ every time we saw one. Extra points if it had a tree growing out the middle. It was a noisy trip to the northern tip of the island.

We found this lovely little bar on the water’s edge called Broken Bridge run by a local. It was absolutely howling with wind, but he enticed us with free water to come back later for a chicken bbq lunch after 2pm. We went for a walk and crossed the brand new bridge (which replaced the broken bridge) to the beach on the windward side. A beautiful little cove but absolutely covered in plastic litter, so very sad. We paid a little homage to Hannie by picking up and collecting a huge pile of rubbish, Sam’s idea. The next people to the beach followed our example which was nice.

We then went up to the end of the road to the monument to Christopher Columbus who landed here in 1492. We had to climb a lot of stairs to it, the most exercise we have done in ages! The view was amazing and the fury of the sea was pretty scary.

Such fun to return to the bar, where we propped up the side out of the wind. Met a few characters, Americans speculating on building here as they had lost their second homes in the Abaco islands after the hurricane that decimated that area last year. We had a delicious lunch – Conch Salad followed by Jerk chicken with peas and rice, macaroni cheese and cold slaw (very traditional apparently!).

A scenic drive back passed our lovely Calabash Bay. It was fun to have a day on land and arrived back to Pole Pole equally exhausted.