Puerto Plata, DR to Great Inagua to Stella Maris, Long Island

We took off from Puerto Plata airport to the east and are now heading west-northwest back to the Bahamas. 
  
A big sugarcane field just to the west of the airport. 
  
The big mountain that overlooks Puerta Plata is plainly visisble in this picture. 
  
A good shot of the harbor.   You can see the aerial tramway station at the top of the mountain. 
  
The first half of the flight was uneventful.  Here we are marking on top Great Inagua airport. 
  
Uh oh.  About halfway to Stella Maris we ran into this.  I couldn't fly over it so I tried going under it, and soon ran into a wall of heavy rain.  We decided to turn back to Great Inagua and regroup. 
  
A good look at the Great Inagua salt ponds.
   
Soon we were back over Great Inagua airport. 
   
Safe on deck at Great Inagua.  I was surprised to see a U.S. Coast Guard facility on the airport with two search and rescue helicopters.   I should have known it; it was mentioned in the Caribbean Flying Guide.
   
Great Inagua has a customs and immigration office -- in that building underneath the flag -- so we went ahead and got checked in with them.  I wasn't sure if this airport had fuel or not, but it turns out they do, so I had the RV topped off.  The "fuel truck" was a fuel container on a cart towed by a pickup truck.  But fuel is fuel, so I wasn't complaining.  I started noticing weather approaching from the south so I started looking around for some tiedown rings.
 
  
I guess an airport is an international airport if it has a customs and immigration facility?
   
About that time Jack found a good real-time radar picture on his iPad. He said "look at this". The weather that had blocked us earlier had moved out, so we now had a clear shot to Stella Maris. However, weather was moving in on us from the south and we had to get going right now before it hit. We leaped in the plane and bugged out just ahead of the approaching weather.

 Looking back at the weather we just avoided. 

  
It wasn't long before we saw Crooked Island off to the northeast with this lighthouse at the tip.
   
Long Island, dead ahead. 
   
Flying northwest, we flew the length of Long Island to the northwest tip of Stella Maris.
 
Here were are flying up Long Island. 
   
 
  
More pretty blue water. 
  
Flying over Deadman Cay's Airport at the center of the island. 
  
Stella Maris airport is on the left and the resort is on the right along the coast. 
  
Quite a few planes down there. 
  
The airport is close to the ocean.
   
Safe on deck and the plane is tied down. 
 

The same four RV-10s we saw at Staniel Cay are here.    There's a good look at our orange waterproof bag. 

   
Outside the FBO building.  Another building had the customs and immegration.  

We got our Bahama Interisland Pass stamped and caught a quick taxi to the resort.

 
 
 
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