Exuma Cays Adventures

Exuma CAys adventures, originally uploaded by exumabound.

Here is the glass bottom boat that we took the tour on ~ it is anchored at the Sand Bar by Musha Cay.

Pigeon Cay and Another Boat Tour of the other Cays

On Tuesday we went to Pigeon Cay and took all our chairs, floats and umbrellas and food and drinks and hung out there for most of the afternoon. Then we went over to The Cut and the kids swam and John caught a Barracuda that was watching them swim - he got his pole rigged and caught him. {he named him Steve}. Julie was standing on a boat and said she saw another one and Chris caught it - but it ended up being a Spanish Mackerel, so that was dinner.

On Wednesday, we went on the Exuma Cay Adventures tour with Peter and his friend Pat. We had so much fun. After a fast snorkel trip by a reef, {the boys fished and Taylor caught a Trigger fish - and Chris caught different fish like a Squirrel fish and Parrot fish. - We went to the Cay with the Iguanas and to Thunderball Grotto to snorkel in the cave. Then Tom and Peter dove for Conch, then we went to Compass Cay and the guys {and Julie} swam with the sharks. They were nurse sharks. Pat made Conch salad and was throwing the scraps into the water while they swam with the sharks. After this we went to the Cay with the pigs on it. There were more of them this time - they were chasing the kids - it was funny. We had a late lunch at Staniel Cay Marina and we were off to the sand bar. They let us off with chairs and umbrellas and they went to fish. This time there were not shells on it and it was covered with seaweed and rocks. It wasn't as nice as last time. But it is still peaceful and nice place to sit and hangout. We got back and saw the sun setting in our car mirrors behind us.

Our Exuma Cay adventure...

We went on a tour on Thursday with Exuma Cay Adventures and it was so much fun.  Peter took us in his glass bottom boat and we explored a lot of the other cays in Exuma.  We drove to the north part of Great Exuma (Barreterre) and we left from the government dock at 8:45 am and got back at 7:30 pm.  We saw the homes/cays of the stars.  He showed us the islands {cays} owned by Niclolas Cage, Faith Hill/Tim McGraw, the owner of the Spurs, Johnny Depp & and we went by Musha Cay - owned by David Coperfield.  It was like being in LA and having a tour of the Stars homes - but we were in a boat.  The glass bottom boat was cool because I don't like to snorkel and he would go over blue holes and coral reefs and we could all look with out getting out.  The kids did snorkel but in safer places and they went to Thunderball Grotto - a cave that was in a James Bond movie.  We went to the most fantastic sand-bar that was near Mush Cay - I think it is the one on their web-site.  Then we had lunch at Staniel Cay Marina and Yacht Club - it was great, that is a nice place.  We would like to stay there one day.  You can only get there by a small plane or on a boat.  We then took our left overs to "Pig Island" aka - Major Spot Cay and next off to Thunderball to snorkel in the cave.  We went to a Cay with Iguanas.   The kids snorkeled and fished at a couple of more beaches and we went home.  I really recommend this trip if you have a day and the weather is nice.