Flashback Friday.... Camping

Day 6: Thursday July 16

Yesterday was a day of travel, to explore the entirety of Eleuthera. On this adventurous trip down island we made six stops on the way to our camp site. At the first stop we explored one of the many blue holes on Eleuthera. On Eleuthera, blue holes are created from the erosion of Eleuthera's limestone; some are in the water others are on land. The hole that we visited was in water and was estimated to be 200 feet deep! This allowed us to go snorkeling. On the many ledges down leading to what seemed to be a non-existing bottom, we saw a couple baby stingrays some groupers, crabs, and grunts. The second stop was a cave system. We did not need a flash light though, there were hundreds of holes in the ceiling to light our way for us, even though some were filled by tree roots. In this cave there was also a geo-cache (one of the many things to find in a world wide scavenger hunt. We spent a good ten minutes looking for it until Chris found it in a smaller cavern off the main one. Way to go Chris!) The next stop was a lunch break, and a visit to a pink beach. We went out to lunch at this amazing women's house that she converted into a restaurant. The inside portion had sand for the floor and the the main part was a deck over looking the many reefs filled with parrot fish (their pink poop is what makes the beach pink). The beach, besides its color was the softest beach anyone on this trip has walked on. We described it as a tempurpedic beach. The next stop was another cave. What made this cave special besides it creation by erosion, was that it was a burial ground thousands of years ago. The Eleuthrins buried their dead in caves because they believed it made the path to the afterlife easier to travel. As we got deeper and deeper the cave floor quickly became filled with water and we had to swim to continue deeper into the dark abyss filled with graffiti on the walls (some goes back to earlier the the 1800s). After painting our bodies with the mud at the bottom of the water we headed to a gift-shop and ice cream shop. Then we went to the narrowest part of the island (10 feet across). Mrs. Dilly almost fell off a cliff but Tess' scream made Mrs. Dilly catch her balance to save herself from falling off a 30 foot cliff (she did not actually almost fall off). After all that travel at five o'clock we made it to our campsite. We built a fire, spear hunted for fish (sort of) with self made wooden spears (lead by Mr. Cox and Cooper), set up our tents and then finally ate dinner. In summery we had a great day and was the most packed part of this trip.