Days 104 & 105 Fowl Cay and Rocky Dundas

Days 104 & 105- Fowl Cay, Compass Cay and Rocky Dundas

This is the blog for Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17
Leaving Staniel Cay was hard, but there is so much to explore and time’s a wasting! Our sail up to the edge of Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park (ECLSP) was sunny and pleasant. As you may know or suspect, spear fishing is not allowed in the Park and John was still looking for that lobster that wants to be our dinner!
We stopped and anchored in the lee of a privately owned cay called Fowl Cay (one of several Fowl Cays in the Bahamas). The anchorage provided good protection from the strong winds, but the current was so strong we worried that we might get pushed into the sharp limestone bank in the middle of the night while we weren’t looking. So on the second day we moved the anchor a little farther out away from the shore. Here are pictures of the limestone shore and me fixin’ lunch in the cockpit.

On our way to spear fish/lobsters in the nearby reefs we discovered a beautiful white-sand beach on Compass Cay. There is a resort on Compass and several large motor yachts were hanging there. Here are the pictures from Compass Cay—nice, huh?

We also discovered that we could dinghy over into Exuma Park area and visit some caves famous for their stalagmites and stalactites in Rocky Dundas. The Park placed several mooring balls for dinghy parking right outside the caves. We left the fishing spear on the big boat—lest someone official think we were violating Park rules—and snorkeled into the caves from our dinghy. Again, we have no pictures for you, but the caves were impressive. They were smaller than Thunderball Grotto, but lit similarly with the hole in the center of the ceiling. I thought it looked a bit like a miniature cathedral with a loft of pipe organs (the stalagmites and stalactites). Also, similar to Thunderball, the surrounding reef was home to many beautiful tropical fish.
Tomorrow we will be heading to a mooring in Exuma Park—hopefully. We called on the VHF two days ago and are patiently waiting to be assigned a Park mooring. Can’t wait to see what all the Park has to offer.