With Fall just around the corner, Flag Stanley enjoyed seven days of flapping in the sun with the Overend family in Elbow Cay, a six-mile-long cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. The family, including Mary Overend of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta marketing department and her sister Barbara McElhanon, M.D., a pediatric gastroenterology fellow at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, began vacationing in Elbow Cay more than 15 years ago.
Mary Overend (left) and Barbara McElhanon near the Hope Town Lighthouse. Barbara and her husband hosted a Bahamian wedding in 2008.
The Atlanta-to-Elbow-Cay journey involved two flights, a cab ride, a ferry trip, and a golf cart trek to the family’s vacation homestead. Flag Stanley’s first Bahamian photo was taken in front of Hope Town Lighthouse, which was originally built in the 1860s.
Time flies when you’re in the sun!
