Wendy Constantine watched as her stall, Moby Dick Restaurant and Bar, on Potter’s Cay Dock, burned to the ground on Sunday night. 

“It was overwhelming,” said Constantine, who is president of the Bahamas Dock and Allied Venues Association.

“It’s devastating to see what you’ve put into something, your life savings, and the memories.

“Now you have staff unemployed, so it’s an overwhelming feeling right now at this time.”

Constantine said she had her stall for 11 years and employed three people.

Police said the fire started shortly before midnight on the eastern end of the dock. It was unclear what caused the fire. Some vendors speculated that it was the result of a lightning strike.

Ormanique Bowe, president of Potter’s Cay Dock Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Vendors Association, said six stalls and two boats were destroyed and two other stalls were damaged. 

Constantine and other stall owners gathered in the ruins of the still smouldering ashes of their stalls yesterday morning. 

Blackened and charred doors were heaped in a pile.

A twisted light pole, partly blackened by the blaze, was bent and touching the ground.

Old gas tanks and other cooking appliances were visible. Ash and debris were everywhere. Remnants of a wooden dock were smoking well into the morning.

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