{"id":2466,"date":"2014-03-18T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2022-01-16T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T16:10:44","slug":"long-island-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Long Island, Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a week anchored in a number of places around Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Little Harbor was a reasonably calm harbor that protected us from some Northerly winds that decided to blow for a few days. There were turtles all about, some sand roads to go investigating the very remote area we were in and reefs to go snorkeling around for lobster.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2474 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050605.jpg\" alt=\"P1050605\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050605.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050605-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050605-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2475 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050607.jpg\" alt=\"P1050607\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050607.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050607-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050607-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2472\" style=\"width: 247px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050601-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1050601\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2473\" style=\"width: 247px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050604-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1050604\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clarence Town we hired a car and went to see the sights on this very very long island. We passed by lots of small towns all of which had lots of churches.<br \/>\nSt Peter and Paul Church in Clarence Town was pretty impressive with its 40ft towers to climb and see the 360 view.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050625-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1050625\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050625-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050625.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2478\" style=\"width: 275px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050627-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1050627\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dean&#8217;s Blue Hole the worlds deepest blue hole, which plunges 200 meters to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with the oval at the surface ranging from 25 to 37 meters. The platform in the middle is for free diving competitions, to me a crazy sport.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2476 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050623.jpg\" alt=\"P1050623\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050623.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050623-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050623-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Outer Edge Grill at the Flying Fish Marina was a great place to sit back and chill in the evenings.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050636.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2479 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050636.jpg\" alt=\"P1050636\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050636.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050636-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P1050636-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our final anchorage on Long Island was Calabash Beach at the Northern end of Long Island, which had a lovely white sandy beach and a nice looking resort. We awoke to a very flat ocean and so motored over to Georgetown in the Exumas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a week anchored in a number of places around Long Island. Little Harbor was a reasonably calm harbor that protected us from some Northerly winds that decided to blow for a few days. There were turtles all about, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/?p=2466\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[188,113],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahamas","tag-bahamas","tag-long-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6149,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seismicwave.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}