Staniel Cay to Exuma Intl. Airport -
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We departed Staniel Cay and headed southeast
Exuma International Airport on Grand
Exuma. |
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There's the
airport. |
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It was a short, easy flight from Staniel Cay to
Exuma International Airport near George Town, Grand Exuma. They don't have
a control tower but someone does monitor their frequency and provide
advisory services: wind, traffic in area, etc. Most airports in the
Bahamas use 122.8 -- and you can hear all of them no matter where you are
-- but Exuma Intl used
118.0. |
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Check out that plane tied down near us. We were told
it was tied down when a hurricane came through. |
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We were unpacking the RVwhen this big
Gulfstream jet landed owned by the U.S. Government. It was met by
the two vehicles seen to the left. A bunch of military guys in
uniform got off, hopped into the van, and took off. I'm sure they
were attending a very valuable conference and that it just had to be down
here in Great Exuma where there is so much US military
infrastructure. They cancelled the Blue Angels 2013
season but they can still do this. Your taxpayers dollars at
work. |
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FBO building. The FBO was Odyssey Aviation and they were really a
first class operation. |
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Out in front of Odyssey
Aviation. Great FBO! |
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We took a cab to
our hotel which was a fairly
good distance from the airport.
The hotel had a pool, nice beach, restaurant/bar. We did our usual thing --
drinking Kaliks by the pool and beach. Here is the pool with
the beach visisble in the background.
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Life is tough in
the Bahamas.
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Jack never tires
of that "I'm
on top of the world!"
thing.
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Relaxing on the
beach with a Captain Morgan & Coke. I have my iPod hooked up to
Jack's Power Pill speaker gizmo, so I'm listening to my favorite
tunes.
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Jack
had this thing
about wading out into the water. He eventually walked out to that
spit way off in the distance. The water never went above his
knees.
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Not bad.
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overly impressed with the hotel restaurant, Jack asked the girl at the hotel desk
for a recommendation of a good local place to eat. She said there
were a place called the "Outdecker" down the road about a half-mile.
So we headed down the road. It wasn't very well lit and it sure
didn't look like there was much civilization up ahead, but then we came to
his big dirt parking lot with a bunch of food vendor places. Once of
them had a big deck area so we decided this must be the "Outdecker".
The kitchen was as seen below: a big barbeque pit! There was
also a bar on the deck where Kaliks could be had. |
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there, we were the only ones. But amazingly, the place soon filled
up with tourists like us. This was the place to have dinner,
evidently. The food was great. |
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You never know what is going to
happen on a trip like this. |
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