Our last trip of the season back to Rum Cay, and Bob got us dinner for more than one night on a reef up by Flamingo Point. It is not easy to find good reefs around Rum Cay, but there is snorkeling....just not plentiful with fish and lobster, being out of season you would think you would see all kinds of little antennae sticking out from under ledges, but no. Plenty to do on the island though, if you like to surf they have boards and constant surfing adequate waves on the sound end near the creek to the salt pond.
Buddy finally got shore leave at Conception, we always let him go ashore at least once a season, he isn't allowed off at docks due to dogs and island cats that would surely pick on our domesticated "pussy" but Conception didn't have any dogs being let loose on shore due to only 2 boats in the anchorage, one being us. Buddy kept wanting to explore the jungle like brush however, so his shore leave had to be cut short. He doesn't mind riding in the tender at all, actually seems to enjoy it, letting the air blow through his hair!
Veda L at her anchorage at Conception, truly a beautiful spot, pristine clear waters offering view from your boat deck of dolphins surfacing in the bay, rays gliding through the waters beneath your boat, and then when you go snorkeling you get to experience being chased off the reef by lemon sharks whether you are spearing dinner or not. The Lemons are very prevelent here, so if you go I suggest letting the spear fishermen go in their direction on another reef and the snorkelers/photographers stay close together (so you can race each other back to the boat) and chose a different reef. Even so, we saw lemon sharks constantly, even within 2-3 feet of the shoreline and above reefs. A local divemaster in Exuma said that the warmer the water the closer they come in. Great. Conception is the only place in the Exumas where we have had these experiences.
Our last trip of the season back to Rum Cay, and Bob got us dinner for more than one night on a reef up by Flamingo Point. It is not easy to find good reefs around Rum Cay, but there is snorkeling....just not plentiful with fish and lobster, being out of season you would think you would see all kinds of little antennae sticking out from under ledges, but no. Plenty to do on the island though, if you like to surf they have boards and constant surfing adequate waves on the sound end near the creek to the salt pond.
Buddy finally got shore leave at Conception, we always let him go ashore at least once a season, he isn't allowed off at docks due to dogs and island cats that would surely pick on our domesticated "pussy" but Conception didn't have any dogs being let loose on shore due to only 2 boats in the anchorage, one being us. Buddy kept wanting to explore the jungle like brush however, so his shore leave had to be cut short. He doesn't mind riding in the tender at all, actually seems to enjoy it, letting the air blow through his hair!
Veda L at her anchorage at Conception, truly a beautiful spot, pristine clear waters offering view from your boat deck of dolphins surfacing in the bay, rays gliding through the waters beneath your boat, and then when you go snorkeling you get to experience being chased off the reef by lemon sharks whether you are spearing dinner or not. The Lemons are very prevelent here, so if you go I suggest letting the spear fishermen go in their direction on another reef and the snorkelers/photographers stay close together (so you can race each other back to the boat) and chose a different reef. Even so, we saw lemon sharks constantly, even within 2-3 feet of the shoreline and above reefs. A local divemaster in Exuma said that the warmer the water the closer they come in. Great. Conception is the only place in the Exumas where we have had these experiences.
