2007 - 6/23 - 6/25 - Green Turtle / New Plymouth

Saturday, June 23 to 25th; We arrived at Green Turtle Cay located in White Sound on the north side of Green Turtle Cay and decided to take a dock. Traveling thru the harbor you notice much newer construction but still keeping the ambiance of the area. It’s an older resort but rather upscale for us but what the heck…we are on vacation and we deserve a bit of luxury now and then. Very pleasant and clean resort with a beach and a fresh water pool. Tonight is their first buffet of the ‘season’ held on the beach with a band and bonfire - we signed up. Good food and lots of fun. We lounged around the

pool on Sunday. Since I didn’t want to spend the equivalent of a weeks’ pay for dinner at their restaurant, we grabbed a really great cheeseburger at the pool-now that’s extravagance!

Memorial Garden

We left the ‘club’ around noon and traveled a short distance to the south end of Green Turtle to the town of New Plymouth. A wonderfully quaint town with small, clean, well maintained streets and wonderful ‘conch’- looking cottages.   This is the sister city to Key West and after visiting the Loyalist Memorial Garden, I see where KW got the idea of

our new memorial garden at Mallory Square. In addition, the names of the residents and founding fathers are the same as our KW old time Conchs – Curry, Lowe, Roberts, Albury, Pinder, Sawyer. We met a couple who suggested we might enjoy a visit to Miss Emily’s, the home of the original Goombay Smash.

W&W & the girls @ Miss Emily's

We figured it was 5 o'clock somewhere…By the way, the drink was fabulous - we had several. There was a group of people from Naples we could tell had been there for sometime. One of the women looked so

Kashmir & Wayne @ Miss Emily's (I love this picture)

familiar to me but I couldn't place her. After chatting a bit, turns out she was one of my supervisors at Naples Community in 1984 - Nancy Hone (now Thompson) We remembered each other but boy do we look different now. What a small world.  We also met Laurel who is on a 38'

Miss Emily's beautiful daughter

sailboat moored in Black Sound. She lives in Green Cove Springs (St John’s River) with Tom who owns a marina there. Tom had to fly back on business so she was alone for a few days.

Laurel & Winnie

We invited her back to the boat. We had more drinks - I threw together a quick fish dinner. We gave Laurel a flash light so she could dinghy back in the darkness. A very pleasant evening.