Bahamas Archives - There Goes Gravity

view of red and white striped lighthouse from the water

August 15, 2023

Elbow Reef Lighthouse

In the mid-1800s, when The Bahamas was a British Colony, increasing maritime traffic necessitated an aid to navigation for mariners hoping to enter the…

Image of a green sea turtle swimming up to observer

April 30, 2023

Killing them with Kindness: Feeding Sea Turtles in the Wild

Many years ago, a magical place existed in the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera. This was not a well-known spot nor specifically marked…

May 15, 2022

Hope Town on Elbow Cay

The quaint settlement of Hope Town, at the north end of Elbow Cay, may be small, but you’ll find it offers a little bit…

August 28, 2019

How to Tame a Stingray

This post could have been titled in many ways, such as “Don’t try this at home” or “How to train your pet Stingray” or…

June 7, 2019

Sailing Viento Azul: Scout trips in the Sea of Abaco

On Saturday, May 25th, Scout Troop 686 arrived from Littleton, Colorado to experience a week of high adventure on our catamaran. The first couple…

June 6, 2019

Sailing Viento Azul: from Islamorada to the Sea of Abaco

We’d been sailing Viento Azul for only sixteen days but it felt like a month or longer. I’d nearly forgotten about our topside home…

December 31, 2018

Bay of Turtles: the Lost Years Found

Years ago, I heard a talk about the “Sea Turtle Lost Years”. Researchers had been tracking and monitoring sea turtles as hatchlings and again…

January 3, 2018

What You Need to Know Before Exploring Eleuthera’s Hatchet Bay Cave

Here’s a (little) bit of geology, tips for exploring, and lots of images with named(!) formations for those who want to come prepared. There are…

December 25, 2017

My First Junkanoo

A Junkanoo is a celebration is a parade is a festival. The origin is not quite known but the earliest reports go back centuries.

August 16, 2016

Whale Point Journal

Day 10 – Tuesday

Steve is up, it’s dark out, the moon finally set during the pre-dawn hours and the nautical sunrise hasn’t happened, yet.