Eleuthera Part 3 (The fun stuff)

Once the work was done each day we packed up and headed to the beach to cool off . Most days this included snorkeling and spear fishing. Unfortunately I don't have great shots of the beaches (we were too busy playing) but you get the idea from the shots below.

One evening we went to visit "The Cliffs".

For supper the last night we went to a local cookout by the beach. You can see Z playing with his new buddy Wayne. They had fun throwing rocks in the water.

On the way to the airport the last morning we went to "Preacher's Cave".

Where's Zac?

Here is the team at the "Glass Window Bridge". It used to be a natural land bridge until a storm made it collapse. Now it is a one lane wide road. This is the spot on the island where the Atlantic and Caribbean meet. The Atlantic side is deep blue and you can see the Caribbean side behind us in this picture.

Eleuthera - Part 2

While we were in Eleuthera Rob worked with the team from our church to fix the roof on the Medical Clinic in the settlement of James Cistern. The clinic was damaged in hurricane Francis in 2004. The Bahamian government has been promising money since then to repair the damage done to the clinic but very little of it has shown up. Meanwhile, the nurse is working out of a room in the library and occasionally having to work by the light of her cell phone to treat patients. Our team worked on the two porch roofs (the completed one you see below was the wrong pitch so it had to be redone) and the front half of the building.

Here are a couple of before pictures....

Midweek

The completed project!

The other task was to build a swing set for the Special Needs school in Governors' Harbor. Not an easy task to get it anchored with such rocky soil.

Check out "Bahamas Fastzkie Mission" on Facebook to see some other pictures of this project and fun activities during the week.

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Eleuthera Part 1

We had a great week in Eleuthera! The kids did great on their first plane ride. As you can see Zac was entertained with his videos and once he got used to taking off and landing he liked looking out the window at all the little houses and cars below. On one leg of the trip we flew into Miami. Rob told Zac where we were and he heard it as "My - ami". A few minutes later Zac told me we were in "Daddy's-ami". If he was talking to Rob he would say we were in "your-ami".

Zac also enjoyed the drinks on the plane. On one plane Rob let him get a Coke. From then on we would no sooner board the plane and he would announce that he wanted a Coke!

Here is the team from Grace Church who were with us for the week.

This was our view for the week. We stayed on the grounds of the Eleuthera Bible Training Center. It's the big building you see at the bottom of the hill. The rest of the Grace team stayed in the training center.

We stayed in this two bedroom "apartment" at the top of the hill.

We arrived a day early to get our family settled before the rest of the team arrived. In our down time we enjoyed the sea breeze on the porch.

Zac enjoyed the yard outside the apartment which was pretty much a big sandbox. In true Zac fashion he wouldn't sit or walk in the sand but would sit on the sidewalk and play.

...more pictures to come!