Eleuthera, another long island

Saturday we had a windy sail from New Bight on Cat Island to Arthur's Town at the north end of Cat.  Wind was predicted to be 17 to 22 knots.  The average wind we saw was 25, with some gusts to 32.  Arthur's Town didn't have too much to offer so Sunday afternoon we decided to sail to Little San Salvador Island.  Little San Salvador is a private island owned by the cruise ship companies.  Just before we got there the Carnival Liberty arrived.  We thought it was arriving late and was going to spend the night.  It turns out it was coming back to pick up passengers after having dropped them off in the morning for beach and water activities.  Private boat owners aren't supposed to go ashore when the cruise ships are there but we thought we might be able to go ashore Monday if another cruise ship didn't show up.

First thing Monday morning another Carnival ship arrived so we headed over to the south end of Eleuthera Island.  There was virtually no wind so we ended up motoring.  We saw another cruise ship anchored at the southern end of Eleuthera, ferrying passengers to their private island resort.  We are now anchored at Rock Sound, which is one of the bigger settlements we've been in.  Most towns here (even George Town and Alice Town in Bimini) have only one main street running through the town (usually named Queen's Highway).  Here the settlement is several blocks in each direction, with quite a few stores and shops.

And in the strange but true category, the people with the Mercury outboard, who we towed when their outboard died, have the same anniversary as we do.  (It turns out they had a broken spark plug and now our outboard isn't running again.)