Pink Beaches & Bubbly - Nikki's Harbour Island Birthday (Sailing Curiosity

It's my birthday! It's my birthday. We're here in Harbor Island, Eleuthera, and it's where the rich and famous go, supposedly. We're not rich and famous, but we're gonna go pretend we are for a day. Just not spend that kind of money. That's a birthday dance? That's a birthday dance. It's a good party. That wasn't a very good dance. I know, but you know, we're not there yet. Jason's tying us up, and you can see our boat right there. Well, not way off. It was a short ride. Well, I don't know if it's where the rich and famous go to play, or if it's just that you have to be rich to be here. Most of the restaurants have the menus outside, and while they sound awesome, their main entrees are like $40 to $50 a piece. So dinner around here would easily run you $150 for two people. So what we're thinking is rather than spend $150 all in one take at one restaurant, we're going to try to eat our way around town, have an awesome day, do lots of different things all for the same. As one meal. $150. Yeah, so that is our my birthday challenge. Let's see if I can make it happen. This is local Wahoo, and he's going to do a wrap for us. And some tuna. Not a wrap, roll. You know what I mean. It's sushi. We've been making sushi for about 8-10 years now. In New York, LA, all over. Thank you very much. It's lovely. A little picnic on the beach. Exactly. Well, we couldn't afford champagne, so we got prosecco, which is fine. Still bubbly. And based on how much I just spent on two sushi rolls, seaweed salad, and a little bubbly, we might have to up our budget. Oh man. Somebody went crazy. This is supposed to be my birthday. It is. We're celebrating your birthday. That's why I'm carrying the bag. This is a little place that was recommended by another local, and it's called Sip Sip. Which means gossip in Bahamian, I think. I wanted to come here and get one thing as well, but Jason ordered two sushi rolls at the last place. We were only supposed to get one. Somebody got eager. Maybe we'll come back for dessert instead. Maybe we'll go somewhere else. I don't know. This is also where the beach access is to the famous Pink Sand Beach. These people here I actually looked up on Expedia just wondering how much the hotel rooms were and starting at $500 for a standard room all the way up to $1,000 or $1,200 for a standard room if we were to book tonight for tomorrow. That was on Expedia. Insane. So we're doing really good anchored out for free. We're way ahead of the game already. I think we can afford that extra. Just that one little bite at Sip Sip, Niki. Oh, come on. No. Are you kidding me? We don't want to go towards the hotels. We want to go towards the nothing. The nothing this way? This is all the hotels and the other side of the beach is nothing. It's supposed to be nothing. Okay, honey. Did I mess you up with our sushi? No. Sushi rolls were good. What do you want to tell us? Is this your 5th, 28th birthday or something? Something like that. Yes, I'm celebrating 28 yet again for the umpteenth time. I thought we were going to come to Pink Sand Beaches and I'm not going to lie to you. We've actually been here for a couple of days now. We've walked about town and we've been to the beach before but walking out for the first time I really expected to see Pink Beaches. Why? Because everybody else I talked to in the Bahamas, oh, have you been to the Pink Sand Beaches yet? Are you going to go to the Pink Sand Beaches? You look them up online and you see these over photoshopped images of these pink beaches. And while there are pink flecks in it, if nobody would have ever said, oh, they're pink beaches, I would have walked out here and gone, huh there's little pink flecks all in the sand. But that's about it. They're not that pink. Now maybe they change different times of the year. Sometimes it's more pink. Less times, I don't know. And we did look it up and it's the shell of a microorganism that is that kind of corally pink color and that's what you see in the sand. That's my take on the Pink Sand Beaches. Still a lovely beach. It's a really nice stretch of clean beach which is nice to have. You see people running and walking and you totally understand why because that is what you should do here. Read a book. Hang out. Go for a jog. Drink some bubbly. Enjoy your birthday. It's a good beach for that. Oh, did Jason you already told him about how much it was to stay here? Yes. But so can you imagine paying like a thousand bucks a night or $500 a night even to stay here? It's a nice beach. A whole lot of money. So, very thankful for my floating home where I can drop an anchor. See the things we do. It's pretty much like we live the same life twice all the time. All the time twice? Yup. So you get to do it over? Yup. And I get to edit it? I live it like a thousand times. So if it was a good moment the first time around? It's pretty good by the end. Feels mediocre? Oh, it's the worst. I think we're gonna skip Sip Sip. I'm not quite ready for dessert yet. And it is your birthday. It is my birthday. So I get to decide. So where are we going now? Uh, Haunted House maybe? Or, yeah. This is what the carpool lane here looks like. We're getting old. Yeah. I wonder if Friday's band day. Oh, they always carry the drum. Hello. How are you? Good. Having a good day at school? Good. It's pretty awesome. You can tell it's a Friday. Excitement in the air. I think this is it. The Haunted House. We asked the lady at the visitor center So what is the Haunted House? She's like, I don't know. Just a house. That they say is haunted. Kinda scary looking. That was it. Apparently this haunted house used to have a gift shop. That's pretty awesome. No t-shirts. Not this day. My birthday party. This was supposed to be my birthday party and nobody showed up. They're all here. In spirit. You just can't see them. Happy birthday! Thank you! Surprise! Somebody's having a party. Sorry I didn't get you a pinata. That would have been awesome actually. I think that's the end of the adventures for this moment. We need to go back to the boat. Get a sweater because the sun's going to go down and it's going to get cold. Get another battery for the camera because that's not going to last any longer. And maybe ditch the backpack maybe? Yeah. Still have half a bottle of champagne. Well we should go drink that somewhere. Oh! They're going to have a wedding. Reception. That's why it's all decorated up. It's all a little lady. It's going to be people from all over. We're allowed to come back she said. Do a little shaking in your bones she said. We are back in business. We got the half bottle of champagne. We're going to take to the famous tree. The lone tree. The lady at the office told us it was really famous. The tourist office. Enjoy our champagne for sunset because it's shortly around the way. And find dinner. Dessert. That's it? Let's go. We also came back to turn on the anchor light and our mantis lights to light up the boat because there is a lot of traffic here. Yeah. You don't want to be sitting here in the dark. It would be a bad idea. Go! Go! Well your birthday day is over. No it's not over. We're still going. The day portion is over. And there is the lone tree. We didn't make it. No. But we got this lovely spot right here by all these random boats and birds. The dump pile over there along with the generator that I guess powers the town. I don't know. But it's lovely. That's fantastic. We didn't get to open our bottle. I know. So let's go find somewhere to do that. And for my birthday dinner we are having pizza. Made by Canadians in the Bahamas. They run this little coffee shop. And on Friday nights they make homemade pizzas which we hear are fantastic. And that's why we're here. You're supposed to have live music. If the guy shows up. But it's off season so they said sometimes he does it, sometimes he doesn't. Welcome to the island. Hello. Hey how are you? Proper pizza. Looks good. Caramelized onions. Apples. Pecans. Roasted garlic. Is that arugula? Fresh arugula on top. That is really big arugula. Where did you get that arugula? Right there by the front door when you walked in dude. That's awesome. Homegrown baby. Alright we've got Kid Rock in the background. We're going to get fined. Definitely some fresh herbs going on right here. Lots of banana trees. I think they're planting on some smoothies in the future. This is all good and well. But this is all way too healthy. We're going to need something sweet. Sounds good. Alright pizza was good. The owners of that place are just the nicest people. We're coming back tomorrow for coffee and internet because their internet works really well. Where do you want to go next Nikki? To the beach? Dessert. Oh dessert. Walk it off on the beach. Maybe get a time lapse of the stars. Yeah I'm good for that. And then have some dessert and coffee. I think we've got 30 something dollars left. So we're good. The extra sushi was good. Can you even see anything? I was going to ask you. These roads are pretty dark huh? This is like somewhere if you were on an island where it wasn't safe this would be sketchy. Yeah this would be really sketchy. But it's supposed to be pretty safe here. Yeah it's so touristy here. I'm not exactly feeling threatened by any stretch of the imagination. Everybody here is good. They're friendly. They're just having a good time. Friday night. We need another golf cart to go by and light you up. Or run me over. Alright we're heading to the beach. We're almost there. Okay I'm coming. Sorry to cut the time lapse short. I know that was lovely but spending some time on the beach I've been thinking about what I want to do for the last little bit of my birthday night. And it does not include going to another expensive restaurant. It's been fun but I just don't want to pay $30 for dessert and coffee. So we're going to go back to the boat and I'm going to slice off some of my fabulous cookies that I have in the freezer and go out front of the boat and watch a movie underneath the stars. Because it sounds like a really good idea. We were planning on all the entire family sitting out here I'll turn that back on if you're coming out but we're a little close to town. We could have a dance party but we can't watch a movie under the stars. I thought you said something about birthday. It's somebody's birthday. It's my birthday! Hey! Maybe they said happy birthday Nikki. Maybe. It's nice to have a good door. We're all inside now. Thanks so much for joining me on my birthday. If you want to see extra photos from our time in Harbor Island and if you maybe want a cookie recipe make sure to click over and check out the post that goes along with this video.