Thanksgiving in the Abacos

As a Country, the Bahamas doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving.  The Lucayan Indians did not teach the loyalists and emancipated emigrees how to grow corn and deep fry turkeys.  The Bahamians however withstood incredible hardship.  The Lucayans were probably chased here 500-800 years ago by cannibals in Venezuela.  I guess not eating is better than being eaten.  This intensity of hunger by [...]

Hell’s Highway

Mainland Abaco is approximately a 0ne hundred plus mile stretch of Caribbean beauty.  Fox Town at the extreme north is connected to Cherokee and Sandy Point in the south end by an equally long stretch of road known as the Great Abaco Highway south of Marsh Harbor or S.C. Bootle Highway north of Marsh Harbor.  I just call [...]

Land Shark Repellent

I’m like a camel in a dust storm right now…hunkering down.  The dust storm for those who know me is a metaphor for my life on my current course and time in the universe.  This too shall pass.   The point being, I haven’t written anything in a while.  The engineer is here fixing my CT [...]

Two carbon fragment shark repellent

Monday was a holiday in the Bahamas as well.  The Bahamians are undecided as to the status of Christopher Columbus so they instead celebrate Discovery Day.   The Green Turtle Cay residents pack up the picnic coolers and head to another Cay for beach parties.  We usually go out that afternoon and shoot our own fish [...]

Pool and Restaurant Etiquette

My friends Sarah and Leanne came over from GTC in the boat with their kids to play in the pool and jacuzzi at the Bahama Beach Club late yesterday afternoon.   Leanne is a talented artist and Sarah owns the best bar, restaurant and marina on Green Turtle Cay.  A guy by the name of Ernie was [...]

Aspen the Mauler

It’s been some time since I have posted so I hope you haven’t forgotten me.  Through a series of seemingly random events I have ended up as caretaker and surrogate health care provider to the most loathsome, depraved , malevolent animal ever abarently conceived by mother nature.  I’m of course referring to “Aspen the Mauler”.
Aspen [...]

Dog at Large…or my life as a criminal

There is a low pressure trough over the Abacos this weekend, so the weather is bad but the surf is great.  Sarah and I surfed off Pelican point most of the day.   Surfing used to be an integral part of my life.  In fact thats why I chose my residency program because of its proximity [...]

Dedicated to those that lived and died on Sept 11, 2001

I bagan my career as an EMS director in 1985.  My contract stipulated that I was to supervise the EMS activities of all fire departments and EMS agencies in the county.  At that time the county had about a dozen fire departments.  The largest of these were Daytona Fire/Rescue and Volusia county Fire/Rescue.  I would [...]

Mundane, but read on!

Lets talk about the mundane.  The very, very mundane, house cleaning.  This too can be more difficult in Abaco.  My dog Sporty, who is still pissed that I rescued “Lucky” the wonder dog (see old blog) decided to do a colon cleanse in the dining room last night.  I imagine this would have been around [...]

Hogfish Sniping

Nothing pertaining to hygiene is easy in the Bahamas.  I went to Nassau to have my teeth cleaned.  Although I am sure the country has good dentists, this is one I trust.  It may be the generous administration of Nitrous that engenders my trust in her , but none the less she is quite competent [...]