The Mermaid & David Copperfield

Our sailing exploration of the Exuma chain of islands is nearing an end, but not before we knock off another Bahamas bucket list item: swimming with a mermaid. Many small islands of the Bahamas are privately owned, and one of those islands is Musha Cay owned by the...

Pigs Beach & James Bond, The Exumas

If you’re waiting to fulfill any life goals until pigs fly, heads up: There are swine swimming in the Bahamas already. Before leaving Walderick Wells Cay, we expected 36 hours of high winds and were fully prepared to hunker down on our mooring until a 70 ft motor...

Walderick Wells Cay, The Exumas

Walderick Wells Cay is the headquarter and is in the heart of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park. The park is a no-take zone by land or sea, so no fishing, lobstering, conching, or shelling – and its efforts are paying off. The only unnatural object is the Park...

Shroud Cay, Exuma National Park

After a couple of days at Normans Cay, we were ready to move on and head south to Shroud Cay, the beginning of the Exuma Land and Sea Park.  The park was established by the Bahamas National Trust in 1958 and is a no take zone which means all of the land and water is...

Norman’s Cay, The Exumas

A few years ago, we saw a Netflix documentary about a fraudulent super music festival in the Bahamas called “Fyre”. Never in a million years we would have imagined coming to the location of this festival, an elaborate hoax music festival that was scheduled...