First a brief history of Little Harbor. In the early 50's an art professor from the states sailed his family into this pristine little harbor, and decided to stay. They stayed in the cave shown in the photo while he built housing and a foundry to do his sculpting. His name was Pete Johnson and he soon became famous throughout the Bahamas and the world for his art work. The old man has died but his son keeps up the tradition and has an active art gallery and studio as well as a great sand bar named Pete's Pub. This is our favorite spot in the Abacos.
Every year on July 31st Pete hosts an "End of Season" party. Historically, we are told it has been pretty wild and raunchy. This year they made an effort to tone it down. In addition to having a pig roast they have several competitions. The tug of war is what you would expect except it takes place in the water. The greased watermelon race is a little different. Each team is given a greased watermelon and a childs inner tube. The woman sits in the tube holding the watermelon while the man paddles her out to a large inflatable trampoline. The man has to climb on to the trampline while the woman hands him the watermelon then the first team back at the dock with the watermelon wins. Pretty hilarious to watch.
In another event a man and a woman are covered with clothspins. Their team mate of the opposite sex is than blinfolded and told to remove all the pins. The first team to get them all off wins.
A final event which I did not get pictures of is a beer chugging contest. The twist with this one is that contestants must chug their beer with 4 tampons in their mouth!
One dinghy arrived with a pirate on board, and one boat arrived named Hooters Patrol. I will let you decide which of the pictures show the crew from that boat.
Debby is shown with a friend, Lainey, who we met on our first trip here 5 or 6 years ago. She is Bahamian and runs a beauty parlor in Marsh Harbor. Debby had her hair done by Lainey while we were there.
We also met a couple with a story book tale. She lives in Daytona and belongs to Halifax Yacht Club which Debby and I have visited on several occasions. He is an old boat captain now retired and living in the Abacos for the past 9 years on an old 60' trawler. Last year they each attended their 50th high school reunion and have been together ever since. Like ourselves they are sitting here in Little Harbor waiting for the seas to subside before heading for the Exumas.
Seas are 4-6' today and predicted to go to 5-7' tomorrow. I think we will skip the Exumas and return home the way we came.
