Today we leave for Compass Cay (Key), weather is great and it will only be about an hour ride, our friend Tucker owns the place and has called us on the radio to say "will be good to have you back!" Bob is anxious to get on the edge of the Sea Park so we can cross over the boundary in order to do some "reef shopping" for dinner! Our Thanksgiving Day treat was to dive a reef that we had not been on for awhile within Warderick Wells, this good sized grouper was just settling into a perfect sized serving bowl...according to Bob's fish fantasy! This area is a spot that I call the Fan Garden as there are every variety of sea fans and corals that you can imagine.

This Bad Boy is a Lion fish, they damage reefs and are not indigenous to the Bahamas, however......as beautiful as butterflies as their fins flutter like feathers as they swim. We only saw one in the Sea Park two years ago, this year we have located at least 5 of them. The Park Warden may start capturing them and giving them to the government to decide if they should be given to aquariums, but they need to be removed from the Bahamian reef system.

Our Warderick Wells Cay home, as viewed from the top of Boo Boo Hill. Such an amazing phenomenon this safe "harbor" is! You can see the deep water that we sit in, about 15' deep which curves in a half moon surrounded by just enough small cays (pronounced keys) to give shelter. At low tide we still have plenty of water beneath us but we look out at just a couple feet of water covering the white sand bottom giving us a view of the lightest aquamarine waters! We dropped some scraps into the water after our Thanksgiving dinner and had a really display of jumping Jacks...the Horse-Eye Jack variety that is! Fish look about 25% larger underwater, but they had to be at least 2' long.