Wednesday was nearly windless so we went about our daily routine while we motored the 40 miles back to Shroud Cay. The surface of the water was like glass and we could count the starfish as we passed by.

That’s all we saw out there until the area of the Yellow Bank.

Here the sand is speckled with coral heads. So, out of curiosity, we anchored out there in the middle of nowhere and checked out the coral. It was certainly the best snorkeling we’ve encountered so far.

The bottom was white sand with little coral heads one to four feet high. Each a home to several schools of different types of tropical fish. A nice assortment of sizes and colors.

One coral head caught Roy’s attention, the lobster hole.

Eric found it and shot us the lobster sign using his fingers for antennas.

Roy took a couple of cracks at it and then I puffed up my expert lobster hunting chest and went in for the kill. Hey, I missed it, then I missed it again, then the poor thing woozie from the spear wandered out to where Roy could pick it up. How could this be, my pride was deflated.

Come to find out he had just molted and his shell was about as thick as a ziplock baggie so it’s soft body wouldn’t stick to the spear.

 

Oh well, in the end we got two bugs for lunch, yummy.

Here Marie is demonstrating our water saving dish washing methods while sporting a light weight cape which flows in the breeze.

We had a nice day yesterday (starting where we left off) on the river loop.

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Shroud Cay is the northern end of the Land and Sea Park established in 1958. These rivers are mostly cuts through the island lined with mangroves.

It’s all salt water moving back and forth from the eastern Atlantic side to the western Bahama Bank side.

We started at the south entrance with the Hobie Cat, sailed it a little but mostly walked it or dragged it across low tide sand covered by 6″ of water.

The water was super warm and clear. Along the way we saw needle fish rising up in the air and skimming along the surface at a 45 degree angle, little puffer fish looking things and nurse sharks between one and three feet long.

At the end we played and played in the waves on the east side of the island. Since the wind turned around from the south last weekend everything got warm. Around 4:30 we sailed the hobie back through the north river.

This is actually our 3rd time up the river.  Last time the kids and I took the trip to get out of Eric’s hair while he diagnosed the generator problem, and the first time up was last week in the dinghy.

We always meet nice people at the beach.  Yesterday we met a family on vacation from Quebec.  They were heading back to the great white north the next day with the dream to take an adventure in the islands in their future.

Here we are at Camp Driftwood where the U.S. drug enforcement officials posted themselves keep an eye on Carlos’ operations on Norman Cay before the raid in 1982.

 

As always Genny has fun with the camera.