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festivals and fun

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March 5th 2010
The week and the month finished out here with the bay festival. We are told there are several held during the year. A fast ferry was chartered for Saturday to bring people, hot-rods, musicians. The ferry stayed until 11:00 or so before returning all the above home. The first night was relatively quiet with music provided by a DJ. It picked up after 10 pm, as people began returning from Elvina's ( ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » North Eleuthera

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Arawak Indians inhabited the islands when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World on San Salvador in 1492. British settlement of the islands began in 1647; the islands became a colony in 1783. Since attaining independence from the UK in ... ... read more