Hi there all my new found friends!!!

I am a woman whose heart has stayed in Bahamas for many years. I was the child of an american missionary who took his family to the Andros Island back in the 60's. We were there for quite a long time and those times spent were those most rewarding and such a learning experience for me. I will never forget all the explorations as a child that I did there and it holds a special place in my heart. I have wanted to return there from the time I left. It now looks like I will do so and I am really excited and looking forward to finding out how things have progressed on Standiard Creek and Fresh Creek. I remember traveling from our home base on Standiard Creek to many of the other settlements/towns. Just wondering if the church that my father preached in is still there and also looking forward to walking the ground that I love. I have always considered myself Bahamian because that is where my heart has always been. I love the culture and the Bahamian people. It is my goal to return and stay with the help of God. I look forward to reading the many post and also sharing my thoughts with all of you. This site seems to be very informative and just what I have been looking for.

Peace
Ejluv

Hi Ejluv,

Welcome to Bahamas Issues :)
I am glad to hear that your in love with the place of my birth.
I was born and raised in Fresh Creek but I live in Nassau now and trust me; I know how it feels to miss rumbling through the bush around Love Hill and Davis Creek or catching crab late in the night around Hard Mile. When it gets to much to bare all I do is catch a flight and I am over there in 15 minutes.

I wasn't around in the 60's but my mom was :D. I am a seed of the 80's.
Just give me the name of your dad and the church he use to preach at and I will get you all the information you need in minutes.

Thanks for joining,

Delroy.

Hi there Delroy!!!
Wow, nice to hear from someone that was born in Fresh Creek!!! My family lived in Stanyard Creek and went to Fresh Creek a lot also. I remember catching crabs on that road that led from my settlement to Fresh Creek about everyday...and smiling in the backlands there also! My father's name was Clyde Huddleston and he had a church there in Stanyard Creek right next to the house we lived in.
To give you some idea, if ever you go back soon, if you come from Fresh Creek on that connecting road it will (T) when you get into SC. You would go to the right about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile (if that far) and there was a white house (on stilts) with a church just past it on same yard and in the back was a dorm house where visitors would stay. I attended the school in SC for a time and when we went to Fresh Creek we would have to take a boat from there to get to Andros Town. I have been told by Mr. Gladstone Thurston (news man/reporter) that there is a bridge there now connecting FC and AT! I have an (adopted) sister that use to live there named Orenia Munroe Marshall and remember the Newbold and Bain families from there! I have pics posted on an MSN group page called Bahama Seaweed of the time I spent there. I have also learned that the 'old school' is now owned by BERC (Bahamas Environmental Research Center). I plan on returning this year and gettin my dose of crabbin, grunts, pigeon peas and of course as soon as my feet hit the ground...I will kneel and kiss the ground. "Home is where the heart is"!! God Bless you !!

Ooops, some corrections...go to left when you get to the T in SC and Swimming in back lands ...ok i was smilin too!!! lol

Delroy,

Some other wonderings came to mind after I posted my replies. How is the agriculture on Andros? I know that some of it is going on but to what extent? That was something else that my father was doing while he was there along with raising chickens in the side yard and back yard. He had been using the wash house out back to set up an incubator and built a large chicken coop in back of that for the hens to hatch eggs. Come bout two sundays a month we used to have big chicken dinners in the yard and lots of people use to come and join us!
If you can, also check to see if anyone has a private home that would rent me out a room in it while I am there. I prefer to pay the locals than to give to the foreigners and I know that I am no 'tourist' there! I am ready to catch me some fish and hopefully get to the crab festival this year. Mr Thurston asked me if I really thought that I could catch those crabs..LOL.. I will show ya all that I haven't lost my touch for doing so!

Delroy,

Some other wonderings came to mind after I posted my replies. How is the agriculture on Andros? I know that some of it is going on but to what extent? That was something else that my father was doing while he was there along with raising chickens in the side yard and back yard. He had been using the wash house out back to set up an incubator and built a large chicken coop in back of that for the hens to hatch eggs. Come bout two sundays a month we used to have big chicken dinners in the yard and lots of people use to come and join us!
If you can, also check to see if anyone has a private home that would rent me out a room in it while I am there. I prefer to pay the locals than to give to the foreigners and I know that I am no 'tourist' there! I am ready to catch me some fish and hopefully get to the crab festival this year. Mr Thurston asked me if I really thought that I could catch those crabs..LOL.. I will show ya all that I haven't lost my touch for doing so!


Hi Ejluv,

As far as farming goes; most of it is being done in the North. Places like BARC have farming taking place year round.

I know of serveral places you can rent a home in Andros. What settlement do you want to live in? My family owns a Bonefishing lodge in Cargill Creek and I have friends at and family at Small Hope Bay Lodge (which is also Bahamian owned).

I am not sure but I think that the Light House Club in Fresh Creek is now Bahamian owned (I have family and friends there also).

Let me know.

The best person to ask about the farming in Andros is the former Minister of that department; Dr. Earl Deveaux.

You can email hime at this address: earldeveaux@bahamasissues.com
Or send him a private message here: http://www.bahamasissues.com/member.php?userid=1709

God Bless.

Delroy,
Thank you so much for responding so quickly! I am looking for a room without all the luxuries of the 'fine' hotels. Back to basics is what I am looking for plus I personally can't afford the cost of some of those places. I am at the point that I would even 'pitch a tent' just to come there and revisit my ole stompin grounds. It will be a time of 'renewal' for me since we (my family) were on our way back there (literally in transit) when my father died of a heart attack. I was very anxious to get back 'home' for I missed SC. We had been here on furlough for about a year at that time and all the time I was here I was home sick for Bahamas. Once my father died, my mother opted not to return and it was really hard on me and I had a time adjusting to the lifestyle in the US.
Thank you for giving me Mr. Deveau's email addresses and I sure will write him!
Being that I lived in SC and was around in FC, I would prefer to find a room there. I have been to some of the other settlements also. Like I said, I have a slew of pics that was taken while there and also some of the locals. I do want to visit as man settlements as I can afford and get to while there. Mr Thurston has told me that he will be available to take me to Long Island and Eleuthera when I do make it. My old head school teacher lives on Eleuthera and I am still in contact with him along with being in contact with Mr Thurston. You can email me at Ejluv@hotmail.com if ever ya want to get the link to the other site that I told you previously about.

Your welcome :)
I will email you for the link.

Looking for Ed from Florida....

I love the Bahamas too. I just got back from Paradise Island Feb,28,2004.
I also left my heart there. Like many had a great trip and I met someone, but
did not get a contact for him. His name is Ed and is from Florida, but
travels to the Bahamas on business alot. Has a construction company in the Bahamas and we met at the Green Parrot---great bar. As a long shot, I thought I would try to find someway to contact him. Any info?

Contact Laura from California
LauraY@cox.net

Laura!! Good luck in finding 'Mr. Ed'!! This is truly a long-shot to try and find him but possibly someone at Green Parrot would know him IF he is a regular. Looks like you need to make many more trips back to Bahamas and (hopefully) run into him again. You must have been overwhelmed to not have thought to get contact info. Geeeeesh, that is the first thing I do.. get a valid name/number.
Again Good luck!