Friday, September 14, 2007

West End, Grand Bahama Island


I spent three weeks at the marina, wandering about the deserted Jack Tar Village, which was creepy.

It was a full resort completely deserted and I took to going out spearfishing in the mornings to catch my days food, which was abundant. The challenge was getting fresh water, milk and bread so I found a taxi service which would take me into a local village where people baked fresh bread daily, but milk was a problem.

These are things I had not fully considered upon leaving. Just how difficult getting daily sustenance would become and while romantically, it was ideal, practically, it was a daily challenge to get what I needed to simply eat.

And my personality of always considering where my money was coming from really bothered me to continually be using money that was in my savings account. I think, more than anything, that was the underlying issue for me and it made me realize how naive I had been to think I could simply sail off to the Caribbean to become a sailboat charter operator.

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