3/14/19 Rock Sound, Eleuthera
Thursday, the weather didn’t start out so great and we had MUCH
uncertainty regarding leaving our protected marina. We waited for over an hour for a squall to pass - - winds were consistently over 20 knots. Ughhh.
However, with a nasty weather system working toward us early the next week, we decided to take our chances
and head to Rock Sound, 12 miles away. As the day progressed, it turned out to
be a good decision. Yeahhh!We anchored just off shore from a prominent church and headed in for a bite of lunch before exploring the town.
There were lots of old, decrepit buildings in the heart of town. Sad.
As is our custom, we stopped by a little shop and asked about things to see. The gentleman told us how to find the town’s “world famous” blue hole along with a smaller boiling hole south of town. Their blue hole was really quite pretty. At over 600 feet deep, it was brackish water which meant that somewhere down there it connected to the ocean.
After picking up a few supplies from the grocery store in
town, we went back to the boat to drop them off and then headed back with the dinghy to see if we could find a
closer place to go ashore to find the boiling hole.
We found a little dock way out by itself so Jim
went up to the house to ask directions to the hole. The caged chickens &
roosters behind the house announced our presence.
As it turns out, we were
quite close. The house was a little gambling joint with a guard at the front door who said we could leave the
boat there. Phew!
The entrance to the boiling hole was just up the road,
around the bend and across from the little church - - of course.
They call it a boiling hole because somewhere down deep, it connects to the ocean. When the surf is up, the water in the hole tends to bubble. Kewl.
We followed a trail around the side of the hole
to a set of stairs that led us to an amazing site. The stairs led into a cave that turned into many, many passages through areas where the roof had collapsed centuries before and which now sported lots of ficus fig tree roots. We explored for quite a while and never did find the end. We will definitely come back another time.
Did you ever see a nest of bats before? This was pretty
interesting!
Here is another group of the little guys. Notice the one in the lower left corner flying up to his friends?
The other interesting thing about this labyrinth of caves were all of the spider webs all over the walls. It gave the caves an eerie feel. We never did see any of the residents but I’m sure they come out at night. Sweet dreams. 💀
