There couldn't be more contrast between those two places....
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| farewell from Sebastian, Kirsten, Soren and Anne |
It was time to say good-bye to our ever so kind hosts, Sebastian, Kirsten and Soren and also to John's wife Anne who was planning to fly to Seattle to meet up with her son and family. In the meantime stand-by plans were made for Flippie - our other pilot who was late due to weather arriving from South Africa - to be greeted by Anne and spending the night in Fort Lauderdale. Then Sebastian would take him in his Cessna 340 out to Andros to meet us there in the morning.
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| take off from Fort Lauderdale |
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| headding out over the water ways of Fort Lauderdale |
What an amazing view!!
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| stunning view over the beach and the main hotel strip |
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| coming over Bimini island where Phil was 30 years ago with his kids! |
A wonderful flight over gin clear waters heading towards Andros Island in the Bahamas
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| stunning crystal clear waters and amazing colours |
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| approaching Andros Island in the Bahamas |
We landed after only an hours flight time cruising at about 8500ft in calm conditions. A friendly airport crew man helped us with our luggage and customs were cleared without any problems.
A quite determined rather large female taxi driver lady knew how to take advantage of 3 strangers and over-charged us quite a bit for the 7 minute drive to Andros Town where we checked into our pre-booked motel. The outside certainly didn't come anywhere close to that dream hotel in the Bahamas that a husband might offer to his wife!But to be fair to him, there wasn't anything else and even this place charged an quite outrageous fee...
Walking around this pretty forlorn place we realized that the Bahamas had been hit by a massive hurricane only 6 month ago and those were the results: blown away roofs, destroyed houses and churches, knocked down trees and cars... it was quite shocking to see!
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| the flag of the Bahamas |
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| once the pub and bar of Andros town |
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| a cottage by the sea destroyed by the hurricane |
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| a nice house by the ocean, also ripped apart by the storm |
There wasn't much choice of where and when to eat here, so luckily we found this place that offered some refreshing beers and fried fresh yellow tail snapper and french fries!
luckily we still had a bottle of Zinfandel to enjoy later on at our motel to tell a few more tales.
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