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Abacos

A RESET IN THE BAHAMAS

Story & Photography by Margie Goldsmith

t was very early in the morning when I stepped out-
side my bungalow at The Abaco Club on Winding
IBay in the Northern Bahamas. I was trying to figure
out the strange squawking sound.. I looked up. On a tree
branch was a green Abaco parrot with a white face and
blotch of red on its neck, the only parrot in the world that
nests in a tree and one of 50 on property.
Most people come to The Abaco Club to golf (the
resort’s par 72-hole course is considered the best in the
Bahamas) fish --- both deep sea and flats --- play tennis or
try unlimited water sports. Not me. I’d come because I was
burned out and planned to reset by walking the beach,
swimming, and eating fresh seafood.
The beach was a five-minute walk from my bungalow,
but each guest was given a golf cart for their stay and my
favorite activity was to drive it. It was a two-minute drive to
the beach, five-minute drive to one restaurant and ten min-
utes to the second restaurant and the spa on top of the
hill, and a drive as long as I wanted down the resort roads
past the big houses and cottages as I tried to see how fast
I could go.

214 WDT MAGAZINE SUMMER 2018