What’s the smallest town you’ve ever visited? I wonder if it’s as small as Cherokee Sound, a settlement so tiny it has a parking lot. Home to about 150 people, it was at one time in its history the most populous settlement in Abaco, although even then there were only around 400 people. Today Abaco…
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Vernon’s Bread and Jeffrey’s Fritters | The Lighthouse on Elbow Cay, Abaco
Earlier this summer I went to visit my friend Kelly in the Abacos, a group of islands in the northern Bahamas. She lives on Great Abaco, and invited me up for a lighthouse festival on Elbow Cay. The festival was a fundraiser for the 153 year old Elbow Reef Lighthouse, the only hand-wound, kerosene-fuelled lighthouse still…