Irene has come and gone

Hello to all our friends from Small Hope Bay Lodge on Andros Island, Bahamas!

From Jeff and all the staff we are here and all is well!

Going to do a day of clean up and we re-opened for business on Saturday August 27!

We send out our thoughts to all those who may not be as fortunate as we are…..

We thank all of you who have sent us good wishes and invite you to come on down! 

Check us out…… www.SmallHope.com

Sassy and Scuba had a fine time through out the hurricane getting a one of opportunity to hang out inside with all the staff..........

We are getting ready for our annual closing period as of the 6 of September, to get Small Hope ready for another season......Stay tuned to our Facebook Fan page for updates. 

We have some new things in the boutique for everyone to check out on their next trip to Small Hope

We looking forward to seeing old and meeting new friends soon......

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Shelly's Lobster Salad

 Ingredients

10 Lobster tails
4 Tablespoons lemon or lime juice (fresh or from the bottle)
1 onion finely chopped
1 red, yellow & green sweet pepper finely chopped
2 large tomatoes, De-seed and finely chopped
1cup of mayonnaise ( you make your own of brought is fine)
1 teaspoon of goat pepper sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

Method

Bring a pot of water to the boil with some salt, bay leaf and whole pepper corns. If you want you can add half a cup of white wine to the water. When boiling add the lobster tails, you know the lobster tails are cooked when the shell turns a red colour. 
Cool them down and then you crack them, get the meat out of the shell, you can them either dice the meat or shred it.

While you are waiting for the lobster tails to cool you can chopped the onion, peppers, and tomatoes. To remove the seed from the tomatoes, you cut them into quarters and  remove the seed part of the tomato from the flesh, you do this so the salad is not to wet. 
Once you have cut all your ingredients place them in a mixing bowl large enough to hold the 10 lobster tails as well.
Add the mayonnaise, pepper sauce and lemon\lime juice and mix together.
Add the lobster tails and mix, add seasoning and taste. Adjust seasoning to taste.

Serve on a bed of lettuce and enjoy with crusty bread and a glass of chilled white wine
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Vicki & Gregg get married.............

o          Small Hope's first wedding of the year was a quiet, intimate occasion. It was a simple ceremony on the beach with Reverend Hamilton. Below are a few words from Vicki and Gregg......

 

  J  Jeffery Birch. MR. Oscar Munroe, Mel, Antonio, Dennis, Randy, Almondo, Ulysses, Aidan Joe and all the special people we met during our stay that weren't listed here. Thanks so much to all of you. When we left Small Hope bay it was like leaving a friend behind. We appreciated all the things you did for us to help us relax and enjoy the most special time of our lives. The triple Pineapple rum punch also helped enormously. We love Small Hope Bay!

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Eric and Myriam from France

Renctley we were luckly enough to have a visit from Eric and Myriam from France. Here are a few words they had to say about there stay here at Small Hope Bay Lodge in English and French............

Eric et myriqm


Nous avons trouve un petit coin de paradis ici au SMALL HOPE BAY LODGE
Nous avons trouve le personel d’ici vraiment adorable et tres prevoyant
On se sent vraiment comme a la maison autour d’une grande famille.
Nous avons passe deux semaines ici et les mots manquent pour decrire cet endroit, la tranquilite de la bay le fait de ne penser plus a rien et d’etre coupe du monde. C’est un endroit qui ne ressemble pas du tout a ces usines d’hotels sur Nassau.

J’ai (Myriam) plonge ici j’ai decouvert le “Blue Hole” qui reste ma plongee preferee ici car unique au monde je pense et j’ai aussi adore le plongee “ SHARK DIVE” qui consiste a regarder en tant que spectateur comment les requins dans leur milieu naturel attaquent une boule congele de poissons.
Eric est un pecheur et a adore peche le Bone fish a travers la mangrove le long de la plage.Mais conseil d’Eric si vous voulez attrape du poisson prenez un guide (demandez a Jeff le proprietaire du lieu ou Giles un habitue des lieux) Eric a pris tout de meme une dizaine de Bonefish.

We have found a little piece of paradise here at Small Hope Bay Lodge.
We have found all the staff very gracious and helpful. It felt like one big family.
Small Hope Bay Lodge feels like a home away from home. We have spent two weeks here and words can not fully describe the feeling of Small Hope, from the peacefulness of the bay, to the relaxing and in formalness of the whole place. Small Hope is very different to big resorts in Nassau in a good way.

I (Myriam) really enjoyed the diving especially the Blue Hole dive and the Shark Emporium dive, as it was a lovely display of seeing these magical creatures in there natural enviromnet and the gracefulness of watching them feed.

Eric  is a keen fisherman, and enjoyed bone fishing in the mangroves, along the beach , and with one of Small Hopes fishing guides. Eric also met Giles a return guess and they many hours talking fishing and fishing. Giles was kind enough to give Eric some pointers on bone fishing.

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Birthdays at Small Hope

Birthdays at Small Hope Bay Lodge

Are always a special occasion.

This last month we have had several birthday’s. First was KC-who was visiting for a wedding,

then we had intern Davis’s birthday -who’s family was here for a return fishing and diving stay, then we had Jim- who was here with his wife Lyndale for a return diving holiday.

Birthdays at Small Hope always go off with a bang, a cake

and the staff singing happy birthday beautifully out of tune with the guests just for you!!!!

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Spring Forward

Small Hope Bay guests enjoyed the extra daylight brought by the time change by having cocktail hour outside on the patio. Conch fritters and Mike's famous Screeching Black Monkeys were enjoyed by all! Pin It Now!

Small Hope Bay Lodge has finally come into the 21st century and has its own blog!

As we start 2007 we wanted to share a picture of a few of us on the outside patio to warm you up ...

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