Goodbye Highbourne!

Hey guys, its Maddy here sitting at Bimini Sands Marina. Yup, it's true. I'm no longer in Highbourne but I had a great last few days there. It all starts Easter Sunday. I woke up and barely noticed the tiny basket on my other pillow. It had a Kit Kat, an M&M packet, and the eggs I had painted earlier that week. The Easter Bunny found me! Even though I didn't get much, I was so surprised that he came. I was so excited because today was also the day of the Easter egg hunt! Yay! We woke up and Mamere made french toast. Then, I grabbed a bag and went out to the dock near the beach. All of the kids ran out on the beach and in the bushes looking for eggs and Skittle packs. Everybody was so focused on the eggs, that I just filled up on the Skittles. I did find eggs too, though. 

After the hunt, I made a shirt. It was full of paint and stickers. Grandpa got his shirt painted, too. A lady squeezed the paint too hard and it splattered all over Grandpa's shirt and pants! 

We spent the last few days getting ready for the long boat ride over to Great Harbour. It was an all day ride. We went fishing on the way there and we caught 2 big mahi. We were just sitting with our poles out when we saw a school of mahi swim by. Three of them bit three of the lines! There was one small one, one medium, and one huge. MaMere first reeled in the medium and got that one into the boat. Then, Grandpa reeled in the huge one which was way bigger than I was and weighed about 60 pounds. After the long struggle, we got him into the boat. We lost the small one, but that's ok!

This was the huge mahi! 

 It was late when we got home, so we cleaned the fish and had fresh fish for dinner. The next day, Grandpa rented a golf cart so we could explore the island. I noticed three boys playing basketball on a court, but there were no hoops. There were laundry baskets. This was a very poor island. If you needed groceries, than you would go to somebody's house. They put things on their living room shelves and call it a store. Just remember how lucky you are to have everything you need. We found a large cave on the beach. It was huge and went way back. We didn't get to go in it, but we did get a picture.

This was the golf cart we rented!

We stopped at a restaurant. This is my drink!

 The next day we went to a sandbar near an awesome snorkeling spot. When I was snorkeling, I kept hearing this crunching sound. I look everywhere but besides Grandpa, I don't see anyone who could be making that sound. Then, I saw several parrot fish munching at the coral.

- That explains it! Parrot fish create limestone by eating the coral. When they digest it, [that's how I'm going to put it], it's no longer coral. It's limestone. Then, I saw the biggest barracuda I've ever seen! It was huge and it was just watching us with it's teeth sticking out. I found a certain spot near the sandbar that the water was bathtub warm. I stayed there all day. 

The day after that, we had another long boat ride over to Bimini. We didn't catch any fish, but we did get to go swimming that night in the pool they have. It felt good to go swimming in a pool.

 We even tried out a hammock. 

Well, I'm sorry for the big delay on blogs. My trip is almost over. See you soon! Here are a few pictures from Highbourne as a goodbye part.

We left a ball in memory of our trip.

This was a double sunset.