CODA STILL HERE IN THE BAHAMAS 2025 (49)

 CODA : Living the life in the Exuma Islands, Bahamas.

28 February 2025 

Shroud Cay, Exumas Land and Sea Park,  Shroud Cay North Mooring field, Bahamas  

Another day another cay (pronounced key).

Marc-  This map shows how far we made it up the internal creek that winds across Shroud Cay before the water was too shallow for the dinghy.  It was still a blast.  We saw lots of fish, some sea turtles, and had a great time sometimes pulling the dinghy up the creek in shallow spots, rowing in others, and then mostly just setting the outboard for shallow draft.  At high tide you can wander all over the island through the several creeks crossing from the ocean side to the banks side of the island.  Both Mindy D. and Charlie L. highly recommended doing the Mangrove creeks at Shroud Cay.  Thanks.

The sign above our first landing beach.

Landing beach that leads to a trail going to a well.

The Shroud Cay well (reportedly safe to drink).

Sue lowered a bucket and brought up some water (she did not drink it).

The beautiful waters of Shroud Cay (creek entrance).

Sue saw Coda through a beach window while getting to the creek.

As we went up the creek the water became a bit shallow for navigation.

We decided to stop and walk around a bit.

When we came back the rising tide had worked its magic.

Sea turtle in the creek.

Sea turtle distorted by ripples.

I am always amazed by the mangroves since they live in salt water.  Salt water is toxic to most trees.

A Shroud Cay sunset.

Sue:  This Cay is part of the National Park.  We got the last mooring when we arrived at about 1:30pm.  Many more boats came in after us.  You pay the same fee whether you take a mooring or anchor.  Although I normally prefer to be in "civilization," this was a great stop.  Just beautiful.  It is nice to be on the move and seeing new things.  There were supposed to be trails, but they didn't go far, or hadn't been used enough to stay open.  The small lengths of trails we got through had big coral rocks and big holes.  This would not be a good place to get hurt.  Most of our exercise today was rowing and towing (pulling the dinghy).

Tomorrow we move out of the Exumas, and over to Eleuthera.