{"id":1784,"date":"2013-03-20T16:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2013-03-20T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:50:02","slug":"a-return-to-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"A Return to Luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cat Island is a lovely place! \u00a0It 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! \u00a0It is absolutely idyllic here!<\/p>\n

We walked up Mount Alvernia this morning to visit Father Jerome’s Hermitage.<\/p>\n

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On the walk up the craggy limestone path he installed carvings to depict the stations of the cross. \u00a0Something to ponder as you make your ascent.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know at what scale the Hermitage was built; it is small, but large enough for one man in each room.<\/p>\n

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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. \u00a0The rooms of the main building are connected by outer courtyards and a small hallway. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n

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There were a few explanatory glazed tiles that I thought were beautiful.<\/p>\n

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It is a lovely spot…. I bet sunsets and sunrises would be pretty spectacular from this spot, and we could see Pandora<\/em>\u00a0sitting at anchor in the large bowl of the bay through the archway.<\/p>\n

Midday we returned to Pandora and up anchored to head around the point to a smaller anchorage in Fernandez Bay. \u00a0What a spot this is! \u00a0We 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. \u00a0The sand is white, the breeze is refreshing, and I just know I’m going to love the rum punch!<\/p>\n

Here is the view we had while eating our al fresco lunch. \u00a0Pandora<\/em> is the white-hulled boat, and the the dark-hulled boat is Ariel<\/em> with our friends Miles and Lareen onboard.<\/p>\n

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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. \u00a0It just doesn’t get much more decadent than that. \u00a0We will have dinner at HoppInn resort this evening. \u00a0I think there will be lobster bisque on the menu tonight! \u00a0Lucky me!<\/p>\n

….And it was a lovely evening with a view of the sunset from our outdoor dining room.<\/p>\n

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Cat Island is a lovely place! \u00a0It 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! \u00a0It is absolutely idyllic here! We walked up Mount Alvernia this morning to visit Father Jerome’s Hermitage. On the walk up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft","category-sailing","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}