Bahamas - Staniel Cay

Tuesday morning we left with a good breeze blowing, and we rounded the North of Bimini to Cross the Bahamas Bank. Making good progress.

Nicholas put his large line out and a couple of hours later we heard the reel go

Nicely caught but unfortunately a Barracuda, so it went back into the sea

The Mackie Shoal Light. It was almost dusk and we could not see any light. Last year it was not working so assume it’s still Out of Order.

We arrived mid morning to visit Staniel Cay, and anchored in the lee of Fowl Cay.

We dinghied to Big Majors Pigs Beach to see the swimming Pigs, but they were not interested in swimming out to us, and the onshore wind made landing our dinghy on their beach too risky with the chance of being swamped by a wave, so we just took photos of them on the beach,

We then continued onto Staniel, but the wind and choppy seas just resulted in Jenny and I getting quite soaked, and the Dinghy dock was no where to be seen. Again the small beach where a few dinghies were pulled up out of the surf, is not suitable for our big dinghy. She’s just too big and heavy to pull up or down the beach. So we admitted defeat and returned to Meshugga. Tomorrow is another day.

Next day, the wind had died considerably and Nicholas had found the Public Government dock, so we went to Staniel again.

At the Government Dock, we found 3 Nurse sharks hanging around in the shallows.

The painted sign at the Government Dock

Lindsay’s Boutique where we were able to buy a Courtesy Bahamian Flag, as I’ve not painted one yet this year, and last years Flag is wind torn and an insult to the Bahamians to fly.

We walked around the island, and these are some sights we saw

Beautiful beaches even in an onshore wind

Coconut trees galore, but remember that every tree on the island belongs to someone, so you can’t just go picking coconuts or any other fruit

We then found our way to the Staniel Cay Yacht Club

Gift Shop

Fuel Jetty

The main Club house Restuarant

The Yacht Club Accomodation Rooms

Jenny on the docks

The Bahamian Flag flying from the Flag Pole

The dingy beach area for yachts to come ashore to the club

We had a coffee on the patio so Jenny could smoke

On our walk back to the dinghy, we stopped at the Pink Pearl Super Market

Jenny blending into the Pink Pearl 

Map of Staniel Cay Village