A DAY WITH MARIO ANDRETTI.....

Today (Thursday, May 6) we spent the day touring Andros. O.K.....now most of you know I drive a little fast (I take this after John Henry) but today we rented a van and a "dd" so we could run up to the north end of the island to a settlement called Morgan's Bluff. Holy crap!!!! It became obvious very soon that this guy wanted to be a race car driver when he grew up! We travelled at super sonic speeds on the left side of the road no less. You know how it is when you are in the islands or ride in a taxi in New York or Las Vegas...you NEVER wear a seat belt for some reason. We wouldn't think of getting in our cars at home and not cinch up. Well, I had my seat belt cinched down so tight that I honestly think I lost all of the feeling in my legs at one point! Anyway, our first stop was a "blue hole." Now, this is not to be confused with an "a hole" (what I wanted to call our "dd" before the day was over). These are brackish water holes that are on Andros....more than any other place in the world. Apparently they are sinkholes in the earth that were created during the last Ice Age! What the hell I am thinking...ICE in the Bahamas???? One more thing.....it was like in the middle of fricking nowhere! On the way there George, our dd, told us that there were wild hogs roaming the area near the blue holes. O.K....now let me get this straight.....some kind of weird hole of water with wild hogs roaming the perimeter.....not my cup of tea I am thinking. Once we arrived biting horse flies showed up....they call them doctor flies here because it feels like getting a shot when they bite you (we now call these Dr. Dave flies)! O.K.....now let me get this straight.....some kind of weird hole of water with wild hogs roaming the perimeter and infested with biting Dr. Dave flies....it was time to GO! Headed on up to Morgan's Bluff to look for some long lost cousins. Found none, but had lunch on the beach, went to the liquor store to buy mass quantites of rum (surprise surprise) and then headed south at super sonic speeds back to Fresh Creek. Ended the day with a fish fry on the dock and enjoyed fresh conch salad and drank a gallon of the Looper's famous "Love Potion"....delish I think :) One side note about the "Love Potion" is that Don used the water out of the hose at the marina to mix it up. We asked somebody after we had drank the entire batch if it was safe to drink the water from the hose and they said NO WAY! We were all happy to know that the head was back in working order due to the possibility of all of us now having Bahamiam Revenge! Guess due to the mass quantities of alcohol in the Love Potion that would kill any kind of foreign organism we all are fine...phew...didn't need the head but needed a BIG bottle of Excedrin!!!



Catch you on the flip flop!

CJM