Still in Hope Town

Ok, here are a couple of dozen photos with a few words thrown in for good measure. Here's the beach in Hope Town. Yup, they all look quite a bit alike after a while, don't they?

Someone works hard to maintain this colorful garden

A private island you pass as you enter the channel into Hope Town Harbor

Don't you love the look of the sea at the end of a little grassy lane with a picket fence???

Not all homes have "No Tresspassing!!" signs. Some are ever so slightly more subtle. "Mi casa no es su casa".

Sunny on the beach

We rented bikes and road about 12 miles one day to Tahiti Beach

Sunny in the sun

Rebecca climbing in a tree festooned with old fishing lines at Tahiti Beach

This was actually at Marsh Harbor, the day Billy bought a new outboard engine. Rebecca got first crack at driving the dinghy with the new engine, which she started right up like an old pro.

On the ride back from Tahiti Beach we saw three guys trying to surf. Trying was the operative word.

The lighthouse from Hope Town Harbor

 The quieter of two pools at the marina. The other one was chock full of hollering little kids

All of us at a little memorial garden in Hope Town

Pretty colors. Pretty shadows.

Last night a couple who met 4 years ago here got married at Hope Town Lodge. We heard music, hopped in the dinghy, and went ashore, not knowing it was for a private event.  This is the bride and groom's decorated golf cart.

We happened upon the mother of the groom. She told us that she had pink shoes to go with the dress, but preferred to wear her cowboy boots :-)

A sunset across the harbor facing the lighthouse as we walked back to our dinghy

Took these last few earlier today. Best seats in the house...

 Hope Town is crisscrossed with pretty lanes like this

 A cottage on the sea

 Another quiet laneway with Jim taking a photo up ahead

 Flowering shrubs everywhere

 Very blue shutters

And that's it for now. Tonight and for the next 2 days we expect squalls and quite a bit of wind and rain. Hope to leave here right after that for Green Turtle Cay, then one long day's sail to Great Sale Cay the day after that.  So far, weather looks favorable for crossing back to the US by midweek. We'll keep you posted!