Today we had an adventure that was new to us—a 4 mile dinghy ride to the dock in Duncan Town. Duncan Town is the only settlement in the Jumentos/Ragged Island chain. We are told it had about 50 residents. Dee and Ron organized the trip and crews from four boats participated. A young Duncan Town resident named Cianna must have been monitoring the VHF radio when we were making plans. She hailed Dee on the radio and asked that we stop to see her. As it turned out she meet us on her electric scooter. She, Mitchell, and Freddy acted as our tour guides as we walked to the Lost Key Lodge to inquire about lunch and/our drinks, and then to the beach. The kids were delightful and informative. Cianna told us she is one of five students in her class on the island but that school is out until early January.
Mitchell, Freddy and Cianna, our tour guides. Standing in front of the Lost Key Lodge.
Lover’s Leap Rock (the large one on the right) as seen from “graveyard beach”—to access the beach we turned at a cemetery.
Cianna showed George the easy way up Lover’s Leap Rock. I declined. She told us that people will go there for wedding photos. George said that coming down was harder than going up. Photo taken by Dee from Ursa Minor.
Numerous goats in a sort of pen - not fully fenced. The first time we visited Duncan Town several years ago the goats roamed all over town.
After we stopped at the Lost Key Lodge for drinks we went to Maxine’s store. I bought a few vegetables and some sea salt. The salt comes from the large salt pond on Ragged Island.
To enter and leave the harbor we came through a very long and narrow channel through the mangroves.
Yesterday we went for a walk with Dee and Ron to the south end of Hog Cay. We saw a small shark swimming in very shallow water. Ron told us it was one of the aggressive types.
We also heard, then saw a small goat and were surprised that it approached us. Once we spoke to it, though, it scampered away.
Bev, thank you for sharing this island’s adventure.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Grace. It was quite a day. As it turns out Maxine, of Maxine’s store, invited all of us in the anchorage to the island’s Christmas party on Christmas Day. Most of us think it will still be too windy to make the 4 mile trip in our dinghies. We are touched, though, to be invited.
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