Recovery and taxes in Black Point - Plus a Race! April 9-16, 2022

After dropping off the Goldens at the airport in Staniel Cay, we headed just a little bit south to Black Point Settlement on Great Guana Cay.  Great Guana Cay feels like a true "family island"--the kind where you get to become a temporary local.  In fact many of the workers at tourist-centric Staniel live in Black Point and commute early each morning by boat.  There are far fewer cruisers anchored here and the friendly locals have not become tired of us yet.  



The local laundromat has a couple of bikes you can rent and tool around the island.  We did so and then hiked out to the first of two local attractions:  The blow hole.








The second local attraction is a driftwood sculpture garden.


But the main attraction in town is Lorrain's Cafe - which has wifi, good food and drinks.  All the cuisers would come over in the morning to work on their computers and then take a break when Lorraine opened for lunch. They also had a number of very helpful "staff" to assist Mike in preparing the taxes.


Once a year there is a sailboat race for the locals and we were lucky enough to be around for it. They start on anchor with the sails down and they have to pull up anchor, raise sails and take off around the triangular course through the anchorage. They invite the local cuisers to sail on competing boats as crew. You can see how far out they hang in order to balance the sail.





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