Exploring

Tues. March 10, 2015

Shroud Cay

Exumas, Bahamas

We left Norman Cay about 8:30 under partly cloudy skies.  It was warm and quite breezy.  We motored the 6 miles to our next stop, Shroud Cay, and arrived at 10:30am.  Mark and Judy picked up a mooring ball on the southern end of the island and we slipped into a  shallow anchorage on the northern end.  We knew we planned to do a dinghy trip up a cut that was on the northern end so that was much closer.  About  11:30 we all took out dinghies through the cut to the Bahama Sound side of the island, beached the dinghies and hiked up the beach to the trail that lead to the top of a knoll called Driftwood Camp.  It was a camp used by the US to spy on a drug lord who operated out of the neighboring cay of Norman. By watching the comings and goings they finally caught and put out of business the drug lord.  The view was spectacular again with the multiple shades of intense blues in the water.

We then ate a picnic lunch we brought before heading back to our boats.  When we got back to the dinghies Lee realized he forgot to turn off the propane tank. We weighed it when we came back & it came up 4lbs short of what we started with. That much should not have been gone. The dinghy is back, in its cradle and we have set our route for tomorrows long arduous journey to Black Point Cay.