The Conch Pile

They are tied loosly together with rope looped through holes in their shells. The fishermen keep them alive by throwing them over in the shallow water. Like politicians they don't cooperate and try to go in different directions-- keeping them just where the fisherman left them. If they just hung them overboard not touching the bottom they would drown.

A Day in Nassau

March 11th 2011
It used to be that we came regularly to Nassau. It was the place the kids flew into for Christmas and spring break from school, or the place we chose to do check-in formalities with the Bahamian government. While it is a big and dusty city, by Bahamian standards, we always found fun things to do like dinghying the canal into Paradise Island to try our luck at the casinos, or meandering down to Pot ... read more

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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

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