‘Twas the week before Christmas, and we cruisers are getting in the spirit of the season. This year we have been enjoying the Christmas season in the Abacos.
We attended the 11th annual Lighting of the Tree on Green Turtle Cay. The Christmas carols were the best part. Choirs from each of the island’s five churches sang, as well as kids from Tiny Turtles Pre-School. The island was decked in Christmas lights, a Nativity scene was set up at the end of a dock, and as we peeked in doors we could see Junkanoo costumes being assembled.
Our decorations this year were modest: Santa hats and a necklace of blinking red and green lights.
Want to know other cruisers spend their holidays? Check out Gwen Hamlin’s Home for the Holidays column. It originally appeared in Latitudes and Attitudes magazine in November 2007 and is now available on the Women and Cruising website along with the complete Admiral’s Angle archives.
The next few months will be prime time for having guests come visit you. Warm tropical weather is pretty enticing after a few months of winter! And that’s the subject of Gwen’s latest column: Guests Aboard.
We hope you are having a happy holiday season wherever you are this year!
Merry Christmas!
¡Feliz Navidad!
Joyeux Noël!
Mele Kalikimaka!
Ia orana no te noere!
Christmas lights reflected in the harbor at Green Turtle Cay:
Home of the Goombay Smash, Miss Emily’s Blue Bee Bar, Green Turtle Cay:
