Day 171 Apr 3 Hope Town Marina Abacos The Bahamas

This is our last day in Hope Town.  We hope to leave tomorrow and move to Marsh Harbour before the front comes thru on Friday......
Off to town this morning to return the golf cart, visit the museum and make our rounds of Front Street and Back Street.

The Wyannie Malone Historical Museum is open today......and is worth visiting.....The settlement at Hope Town was founded in 1785, in part, by a widow from South Carolina named Wyannie Malone.  Wyannie along with her three children started a dynasty in Hope Town that spread the Malone name through the Bahamas over to Key West.
They were into shipwrecks known as "salvaging" for their livelihood.  They would intentionally mislead ships onto reefs to reap the treasures in their holds....can you believe that...

Wyannie Malone Historical Museum

 

 

Model Ship

 

 

Sloop Model

 

 

Neat display

 

 

This part of the museum represents a house back then

 

 

Can you imagine????

 

 

The Loft

 

 

You can see the harbor

 

 

Dining Area

 

 

Sitting Room

 

 

Children's room

 

 

New Hope School Media Center

 

 

New Hope School

 

 

Memorial Garden

 

 

Memorial Garden overlooking the Ocean

 

 

Mr. Curly Tail

 

 

Bahamas National Flower...Yellow Elder

 

 

Burial Society

 

 

 

The Loyalists landed here in 1785

 

 

Harbour's Edge on Front Street

 

 

Da Crazy Crab Gift Shop

 

 

New Hope Lodge and Cottages for lunch

 

 

Down the path to the Beach Bar & Grille

 

 

Great place facing the ocean

 

 

Grouper Reuben and Conch Chowder

 

 

Bougainvillea

 

 

Hibicus

 

 

Miss Saddi ready to find a kitty cat

 

 

 

Sam's Ride

 

 

Sherman and the Captain

 

 

Sherman, Sam, Nancy and Rik....Hope Town will be remembered