from our Bahamas honeymoon. What a trip it turned out to be. It was fun, but I learned a lot!!! So here you go -
1.) They don’t show it in all the travel brochures, but it can rain, I mean pour, for 5 days straight in the Bahamas.
2.) If you are flying Bahamas Air, make sure you have “time to spare,” apparently everyone knew that but us :)
3.) Bugs may eat you alive despite the amount of Mosquito Quietus you slather on your body.
4.) You really can live off peanut butter sandwiches and cheese and crackers if you have to.
5.) Eventhough you look for the cabbie without a beer at the airport, he may still stop and get one on the way to your destination!

Feel free to contact me if you are considering a trip and want more info, I have lots more to share.

We spent the first 4 days or so in Freeport hanging out with Kelly and Jon and shooting their wedding. After that the real adventure began. We were supposed to take a flight to Governor’s Harbour, but our flight was delayed by 4 hours or more (but they only tell you this in 45 minute increments, I guess so you will continue to be hopeful that in the next 45 minutes you will have access to a working bathroom, but I’m not really sure why) so we ended up in Rock Sound looking forward to a hour and 1/2 or so cab ride to our rental house. Thats where we met Buffalo, our cab driver. A really nice man and he looked the most promising because he was about the only cabbie without a drink in his hand at the airport, but alas he did stop for a beer on the way to our house :)

By the time we got to our house it was so dark we couldn’t see a thing and were locked out. Everything looked a bit more promising in the morning but within a few hours a major storm blew in and decided to hang around for the next 5 days. But we still had a great time!!! And we would go back again in a heartbeat. We were miles away from almost everyone (except the 4 adults and five kids who were renting the other house on the property!) had really crappy food (but good booze!) no TV (but a bunch of old VHS movies to choose from) but it was our honeymoon so who cares!!! It was awesome.

The round house we rented for the week. It was pretty rustic but we still loved it. I found it about a year ago on www.vrbo.com, a great resource for vacation rentals. Click here to learn more about it. It really has a facinating history and Taja and Doon were great to work with. In fact Taja wanted me to come back next month and shoot her wedding but I was already booked.

The view out of our front door. A few hours the first morning we were there before it really started raining.

When your husband is stuck in the house for 3 days he will go out into the rain and slay wild coconuts. This is actually harder than it might seem but it did give him something to do for a few hours one day.

The bounty :)

A beautiful but deserted beach at Cocodimama. A place we found a few days after being in Governor’s Harbour.

One day we took a day trip up to Harbour Island and on the way we crossed the Glass Window bridge, where the land narrows to little more than the width of a one lane road. On the one side is the Atlantic. Above you can see the storm clouds and waves crashing.

One the other side is the Caribbean, calm and clear. It really is surreal.

The painting my sweet husband bought me while we were in Harbour Island. I think I’m going to put it in my new studio. Its called It’s Getting Wet and the artist is Rosalyn Palmer.

All over Eleuthera and Harbour Island there were chickens and roosters running around. This little family was right outside the art gallery. I kind of felt bad cause a few kids were kind of terrorizing them.

But when we came out of the art gallery I felt worse. At first I thought “oh good someone put them behind the fence away fromthe bad kids” but then I looked harder and saw there were fenced in with a bunch of cats. Now the kids weren’t looking so bad after all :(

Finally a sunny day. One of the churches in Governour’s Harbor.

You can learn a lot about a town if you go to the cementary. This was right outside the library. Most of the graves dated to the 1800s.

Governour’s Harbor.

The Haynes Library and communication hub of the town.

Finally a day at the beach!!!

Ryan trying to figure out what kind of seed he found.

I love the bright architecture of the area. It gave me a lot of inspiration for my little studio!

To find out more about Eleuthera click here. Thanks for stopping by and seeing a bit about our trip. Check back at the end of May for more pics from the Bahamas as I will be back there shooting a wedding again next month :)