a visit to the “other” side of Hope Town

For us landlubbers (or former landlubbers – although if you had seen Rudi docking the boat tonight you’d consider us absolute and total landlubbers!) the lighthouse side of Hope Town is inaccessible. You get there by boat. The ferry captains are nice enough to take you over and drop you off for free, and they will pick you up when they come back into the harbour on their regular ferry schedule. That’s really nice for people, and Hope Town visitors take advantage of that all the time and love it!

But we’ve never ever done the visitor stuff. It was literally from the moment we stepped off the ferry onto Hope Town on our very first visit that I asked for a realtor, and we spent the entire first visit looking for property. So when we had to go visit a marina to ask about storage, we took advantage of being on the “other” side, and checked out the lighthouse! It is pretty tall!!

And the view of Hope Town is beautiful. We have that great horizontal giclee by Kim Rody that is her rendition of the town from that side. And seeing it live and in person was quite an accomplishment. It required some serious climbing and scrunching and then holding on for dear life as the winds whipped around us at the top!

There’s the harbour, and the tiny strip of town, then the Atlantic Ocean. If you squint you can see the hot pink pilings at Capt. Jack’s up there. And in the next one there’s Flamingo Villas as you round that corner into the harbour, which you saw, I think, in Wednesday’s photos.

A closer look:

And here’s a closer shot of Capt. Jack’s too.

Around the middle of this shot is the seafoam green Harbour’s Edge, with the dock pilings right at the edge of the restaurant.

And in the middle of this one is the Hope Town Harbour Lodge, reaching from the harbour to the ocean. An episode of “Scrubs” was filmed there. (Well, two, since they took the one-hour show and played it in two half-hour segments.)

It is too beautiful here.

Stay tuned for the lighthouse history and photos tomorrow!

~ by photokunstler on 20 May 2010.