Summer News

Normans Pond Cay

Just the other day I was praying for the Lord to send us our own pilot and plane, to take us where we need to go and when, to make traveling with little ones easier and faster. Well, he kind of answered that prayer, and I think some of you might even be interested to hear the answer. Delta airlines now offers direct flights from Atlanta (ATL) to Georgetown (GGT). Normally you have to go through Nassau, Miami or Fort Lauderdale to get here, but this is a non-stop flight from Atlanta. We're hoping this will mean good things for our business as well as our family and friends visiting :) In addition to this new flight with Delta there is also a non-stop flight with AirCananda from Toronto. These flights open up so many great opportunites for our little island. They may have limited schedules (especially during this time of year), but hopefully that won't be too hard to work with.

I mentioned the other day a group from our church in Nassau that came for a Men's Retreat. You'll see Dallas on the far right holding Joss (with the red shoes), Dallas' father, Andy, next to him holding Emit, and his youngest brother on the far left, Elliott. Their family (originally from Nassau, Bahamas) has always vacationed in the Exuma Cays (pronounced keys). Partly because the northern cays are a short boat ride from Nassau, but mostly because even as Bahamians that see the ocean all the time, they just love the waters, beaches, spear fishing and turtle spotting that awaits you in the Exuma Cays. It really is the best in the Bahamas in our book! So, needless to say, a weekend with one of his brothers and his dad camping in the cays did not really feel like "work" to Dallas.

He really enjoyed getting to show his family first hand what his work is like. Granted they only went out for 2 nights and not the usual 5-6 nights, but they got a taste at least.

Apparently the turtle spottings on this trip were not hard to come by. They saw many Green Turtles, a Loggerhead and a Hawksbill, all within a very small radius. 

Dallas has been working very hard this summer to fix up our support boat; the Mako named "9 Lives". She's been a good boat to us, but we are working on selling her so we can upgrade a bit with another boat we need engines for. For those of you that saw this boat this past season you can appreciate the work he has done with her. Anybody need a boat? :)

I have been saying that it really is a shame that this time of year is really slow for our island. Nassau is booming with tourist, but it always slows down for the Out-Islands it seems. It's a little more rainy this time of year, and it can get blazing hot, but the water is AMAZING! It's so warm most days and usually very calm. A local way of referring to the calm water is to say it's "Glass", so that might give you an idea.

Not that we complain too much with a little down time to enjoy ourselves too :)