Cat Island is a lovely place! It is what I thought all of the Bahamas would be….open air causal resorts with a border of pearly powdered beach on a calm bay of aquamarine water! It is absolutely idyllic here!
We walked up Mount Alvernia this morning to visit Father Jerome’s Hermitage.
On the walk up the craggy limestone path he installed carvings to depict the stations of the cross. Something to ponder as you make your ascent.
I don’t know at what scale the Hermitage was built; it is small, but large enough for one man in each room.
The rooms are a sanctuary, an outer all purpose type room, a sleeping room, and in a separate building out of sight from the main building was a small kitchen room. The rooms of the main building are connected by outer courtyards and a small hallway. The whole thing is built into the limestone at the top of the hill, so each room is on a slightly different level and required some stone steps to be built.
There were a few explanatory glazed tiles that I thought were beautiful.
It is a lovely spot…. I bet sunsets and sunrises would be pretty spectacular from this spot, and we could see Pandora sitting at anchor in the large bowl of the bay through the archway.
Midday we returned to Pandora and up anchored to head around the point to a smaller anchorage in Fernandez Bay. What a spot this is! We are almost all the way to the beach, and awaiting our arrival are two perfectly tropical resorts, complete with outdoor terraces for dining and open sided grass hut bars. The sand is white, the breeze is refreshing, and I just know I’m going to love the rum punch!
Here is the view we had while eating our al fresco lunch. Pandora is the white-hulled boat, and the the dark-hulled boat is Ariel with our friends Miles and Lareen onboard.
We had lunch on the tiled floor terrace of one resort, and I was barefoot since I’d walked in from the beach where we landed our dinghy. It just doesn’t get much more decadent than that. We will have dinner at HoppInn resort this evening. I think there will be lobster bisque on the menu tonight! Lucky me!
….And it was a lovely evening with a view of the sunset from our outdoor dining room.
