Day 56: Busy Day in Bimini

Bimini Cove Sands, South Bimini, Bahamas (docked)

March 11, 2022

We took a quick ride to North Bimini (it’s like 200 yards from South Bimini).  The ferry is great – there’s no real schedule, they just go back and forth when people come.  The airport is in South Bimini and hotels are in North Bimini, so occasionally there are larger groups of people.  Some of the same folks drive the airport vans and the ferries. – last week one of the ferryman jumped onto a scooter to run to the clinic to get a phone the doctor left behind. 

As much as we love the protection of our marina, the water color is nowhere near as brilliant as the water in the channel. 

We took a long walk through Alice Town and into Bailey Town because we wanted to try food from a conch shack there. A cruise ship had docked so there was a huge line – we decided to to go to a different place. Unbelievably, we went to place that had an excellent pastrami sandwich. Who knows how the Manna Cafe gets pastrami but, dang, it was so tasty.

The Vita Malt drink we had with our sandwich…no doubt it’s an acquired taste. It was very sweet with a very slight beer taste (it has barley and malt in it). It’s alcohol-free but we had hopes that the barley would make it more “beer-ish.”

Part of our walk was along the waterside. It was pretty cool to see this starfish in the shallow water near the sea wall.

Since stores were restocked yesterday we were able to get some groceries today. We brought a small, soft cooler with us so we could bring milk, cheese, and meat back. It was a 10 minute walk to the ferry from the small store. We actually had a longer ferry ride than usual because they had to drop off some folks at a different marina. As a side note, Vita Malt was available at the grocery store. We did not purchase any.

We hung out by the pool for a bit and watched the sunset. We were hoping to see a green flash but didn’t get lucky tonight.

I am hoping to explore South Bimini tomorrow. There’s not many businesses here, but I am hoping to get John to take a walk down the road with me just to see what’s on the other end.