Jumping to Eleuthera – December 5, 2022, “The Glass Window”, Bahamas

We decided to move along to the island of Eleuthera and caught a weather window to cross the Northeast Providence Channel. We had a couple of nice days and spent the first night anchored in Royal Island and then moved over to “Meeks Patch.” We did a snorkel there which was incredible. I saw two puffer fish, three lionfish, a starfish which was about the size of a pizza, and tons of coral. By far one of the best snorkel’s we have done.

At that point we needed to stay in the marina for a few days with an upcoming storm coming through.  We decided to stay in Spanish Wells for the next three days which worked out great.  We could do laundry, get off the boat and walk around, and Ron was able to mount our starlink (which is working fabulously by the way).

Spanish Wells is an interesting place since it is the HQ of Red Lobster and based on all this business, it is a vibrant little town.  Plenty of restaurants, the best grocery store we came across last year, and the folks at the marina are awesome.  It was an easy couple of days and we even got to enjoy a draft beer which is not normal here!

Once the weather broke, we decided to go through current cut and anchor near “The Glass Window.” There we had a chance to beach the dinghy and see not only “The Queen’s Bath,” but also the death highway which we had to walk down to get to the glass window bridge. There was no berm, no sidewalk, or any place to walk along next to the road where cars were flying by us at 60MPH. I wasn’t sure we were going to make it.

The Glass window was kinda cool as there was a gigantic cave, blow holes, and the bridge itself was pretty cool.