A Visit to Hope Town

We took the ferry over to Hope Town yesterday. Its a beautiful little town located at the north end of Elbow Cay. The harbor is completely protected from all sides but it is small and very crowded. The town, like most of the Abaco Cays was settled circa 1780 by Loyalists from America who did not want to leave British rule. There are no cars in the town. Golf carts are the means of transportaion on what amounts to 10 foot wide sidewalks. Today a waterfront lot sells for almost a million dollars, and with a house can easily exceed 2 million. A two bedroom beach house rents for over 2100 dollars a week. A large number of Americans, Canadians and Europeans spend the winter there. I still cannot upload pictures so I cannot share a beautiful picture of the Harbor and lighthouse.