After cooling our heels at home for the first several months of the year due to the actual Wolfe Street events noted here, we were able to get away sooner than we anticipated thanks to the crew completing the construction milestone that was putting our lateral line at risk.
So, where to go in April? Despite its proximity to DCA, we had never visited the Bahamas, so this was a candidate; as were Monserrat, St. Eustatius, Saba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mustique, Bequia, and a few other Caribbean islands that WolfeStreetTravel has yet to visit (we’ll get to them all in good time). But which one now? We’ve never viewed Bahamas positively, probably due to Nassau and that unappealing stationary cruise ship of a resort, Atlantis, so this wasn’t necessarily the top of our list. But we didn’t want complicated travel logistics, which all of the others would entail, and we had been eying Kamalame Cay off Andros Island in the Bahamas for probably five Christmases in a row now. They had availability (and a 5th night free for a stay of 4 nights), and getting there entailed a civilized 10:15 flight from DCA direct to Nassau followed by a 10-minute puddle jump to Andros Island (plus a 20-minute drive to their dock). So, we booked.
Nothing compares to our puddle jump experience to and from St. Bart’s second-shortest-runway in the Caribbean (good thing we didn’t go to Saba this time – that island holds the record for the shortest), but pretty cool and super casual experience. (That’s someone’s Starlink dish just sitting there in the aisle behind the cockpit.)
The bustling Andros Town international airport – country 82 for WolfeStreetTravel!
And an on-time arrival at our destination. Kamalame Cay is both a cay off Andros and a self-contained resort.
Where you’re issued a golf cart upon check in, and you drive this sandy path to and from your cottage to the main house complex, where the pool and two bars and restaurants are located.
Pretty good situation at our North Beach Cottage.
One of our cottage’s resident curly tail lizards (travel without reporting on reptiles would be anathema to WolfeStreetTravel’s core tenets):
Super early dinner our first night, since we didn’t have any breakfast (as a matter of routine) or lunch (because we were on or between flights and had no opportunity). The pork belly bites with hoisin sauce and basil became an almost-every-night staple during our stay.
The cay’s overwater spa, indulged in on one of the WolfeStreetTraveler’s birthday.
Beach by the great house, which was nice, but the one just down the steps from our cottage was just as pleasant.
The weather was perfect – clear skies, upper 70s / lower 80s. BUT, we had to contend with wind 24/7 during our entire stay:
Each cottage had its own little palapa, which was pretty great.
As was the pool.
Whole fried snapper. Great in concept (who doesn’t like a whole fish?), but their technique to pull the fillets out and batter and fry the backs unfortunately ruined it. Still fun to look at though?
Little drive back to our place – the sound / strait, such as it is, is on the right, and all of the properties and the beach are on the left:
Pretty great cottage situation – every property on the place is right on the beach.
Sunset our last night:
Early morning ride across the sound / strait to Andros to catch the 7:30 flight (with a ridiculous layover for our noon flight home).
Another puddle jumper, another cockpit view:
Nothing to be alarmed about here:
Other than an engine fire?
Hopefully more posts on Sicily soon, but you never know.
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