Cambridge Cay

Five years ago we were accompanied on our first Bahamas trip by Trisha and Dan from Texas.  Guess who heard us on the radio and came to visit?  Dan and Trish have been back to the Bahamas many times since that first trip, and they encouraged us to come down to their favorite place, Cambridge Cay, at the southeast end of the Land & Sea Park.  We and our two buddy boats hastened down there and had a wonderful time.  Dan was a great guide; he led our dinghy caravan to the "Sea Aquarium," a very fine coral reef for snorkeling.  Among other wonders was a huge lobster.

I know we look silly, but don't knock it 'til you try it.

Click on this pic to see all the fish and corals.

That night we all had pot luck dinner aboard Dan's Defever 53.  Dan & Trish had some "extra lobsters" (I didn't know there was such a thing as extra lobsters); we enjoyed them along with some grilled pork tenderloin, crab cakes, sides and brownies.  Sometime during dinner our dinghy untied itself and went exploring on its own.  By the time we discovered it missing, darkness had fallen upon the face of the deep (as it says somewhere in Genesis, I think) so Dan and Peter set out in Dan's dinghy with a couple of flashlights to hunt it down.  Fortunately Dan is familiar with the area.  He cleverly stopped the boat several times to see which way the winds and currents would carry us, hoping to focus our search in the most likely area.  The strategy paid off; after about an hour's search, we spotted the delinquent dinghy about two miles from where we started.  We're told this is most uncommon; usually when dinks go missing, they're gone for good.

Next morning Dan and Trish took us to a surf-pounded swimming hole on Compass Cay

 known as Rachel's Bubble Bath.

Next stop:  Black Point on the island of Great Exuma.  More to come.