{"id":854,"date":"2017-06-04T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T00:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2017-06-04T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T00:12:20","slug":"spanish-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/2017\/06\/spanish-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish Wells, in the north end of the Eleuthera archipelago, was a strategic pit stop for us before jumping to the Sea of Abaco. Unlike other towns we’ve visited, Spanish Wells has a mostly white population (of roughly 1600 inhabitants), descendants of crown loyalists who arrived after the American Revolutionary War. Nowadays\u00a0 Spanish Wells has a brisk fishing industry, boat yards, restaurants and a variety of shops.<\/p>\n

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The narrow and busy channel to enter Spanish Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the days, settlements and miles passed, we had been seeing more and more yellow signs and yellow t-shirts for the incumbent Progressive Liberal Party. Spanish Wells was, in contrast, all red for the conservative Free National Movement. The night we arrived we heard celebratory chants, hollers and honks and immediately knew who had won. We hope they don’t ditch Paris.<\/p>\n

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Lots of fishing boats here. Not much space for docking Gecko, though.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our stay in Spanish Wells was uneventful. We didn’t encounter exotic critters, lightning or 10-knot currents. By far, the most remarkable thing we experienced was the supermarket, the largest we’ve been to in almost four months. It was less than a tenth the size of a small Walmart, but we were dazzled, like kids in a toy store.<\/p>\n

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Juan channeled his inner Emerson Fittipaldi and zoomed us around, jumping on bumps, scaring chickens and making me squeal with every sharp turn… at five knots. We explored the town and neighbor Russell Island, and we got propane (yes, again).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spanish Wells, in the north end of the Eleuthera archipelago, was a strategic pit stop for us before jumping to the Sea of Abaco. Unlike other towns we’ve visited, Spanish Wells has a mostly white population (of roughly 1600 inhabitants), descendants of crown loyalists who arrived after the American Revolutionary War. Nowadays\u00a0 Spanish Wells has … Continue reading “Spanish Wells”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GCAo-dM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}