Shroud Cay

Shroud Cay
12/30/11
24 33.30 N 76 48.44 W

There is a narrow channel through the mangroves which cuts through from the Exuma Bank to the Exuma Sound (Atlantic Ocean) where the current runs swiftly, we motored our dinghy through the cut with the idea of swimming back through with the current - unfortunately a few jet-skis had a similar idea and made it too dangerous to swim - they were going too fast to prevent a nasty accident.  The beach at the Sound end was absolutely beautiful, pristine and uninhabited (until the jet-skis arrived - each adorned with a "bikini beauty" on the back).   From our anchorage at Normans Cay we could see boats anchored in the distance and presumed that was the anchorage for the "swim through" - much to our embarrassment we motored out passed the sand bank from Normans Cay and back in to the anchorage latitude and longitude only to end up just on the other side of where we were originally anchored - it would have been much quicker to go via dinghy !!!

Phil and Sandy on trawler "Stroller" told us of their favourite spots in this area - their advice was spot on and we were very grateful to them.  Warderick Wells was the next stop - it is a marine park that supposedly has amazing snorkeling - we arrived just before sunset which was a bit late to try to get through the narrow and shallow mooring field with our 7 foot draft – they wouldn't allow us to use one of the park mooring balls at the beginning of the channel so turned tail and found an easier anchorage just outside the park as the sun set.