"...But you can never leave..." Well that's how it's starting to feel, anyway. Since we are stuck here in Lucaya we decided to make the best of it and made reservations for the Champagne "Jazz" Brunch at the swanky Harbor Room. Free champagne, the buffet was excellent, and the jazz? Well, it was basically one guy playing a couple of keyboards, but he sure jazzed up his arrangement of "Hotel California". But it was a nice way to celebrate our wedding anniversary. One year of marriage under our belts and so far no complaints. Well, no serious complaints anyway.
We spent a few minutes contemplating a bizarre structure that wasn't here last year. At first we thought it might be a very compact driving range -- there were tall lights surrounded by all kinds of netting, but then we realized that it was a trapeze act (the guy who climbed up and started swinging back and forth was a dead giveaway!). They have mocked it up to look like a pirate ship and I guess they plan to eventually stage a Vegas-type Pirate-themed acrobat act. You can tell that this past hurricane season was a mild one -- it seems that all the cash the businesses would have normally spent on hurricane repairs has gone instead to improvements. Some examples: the marina we spent a month at last year used to be called Lucayan Marina Village, but now it is the more imposing Grand Bahama Yacht Club; and the Pelican Bay Hotel has re-roofed nearly all of its buildings from spanish tile to a more wind-resistant metal sheeting and they are building a covered enclosure over the pool bar. Nice.
After lunch we walked out along the beach and just enjoyed the sunshine. It's still blowing pretty good out there so even though we've been here a week longer than intended, we will hang out here one more day and see if the weather moderates a little before pushing on further south.
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