We arrived at Allen's Cay on the 18th. There were 10 boats here including us. It was a bit crowded but we found a spot. Our friends from Miami where here and the couple from Canada arrived on the 19th. We are pretty much traveling on our own but there are groups of boats that move from one anchorage on another together. There are 3 cays in this group and a population of protected rock iguanas live on 2 of them. Because they have been fed (illegally by tourists on speed boats out of Nassau twice daily) they come out of the bushes onto the beach whenever they hear a motor. We can only take Moose to one of the islands which does not have iguanas but does have a small beach. We went ashore just as a tourist boat arrived and took a few photos of the reptiles begging. The day following our arrival the winds picked up and our 2nd night was spent watching the boats in the anchorage move back and forth as the wind and current were in opposite directions. A couple of the boats pulled their anchors and set them again in a different place.
The color of the water is beautiful and with the strong currents stays very clean. There are not many places in the Bahamas to take trash so you have to sort it and bag it. Food stuffs can be tossed overboard in deep water, paper can be burned and buried and cans, bottles and especially plastic saved for an island which has trash facilities where you pay to leave your bags of trash. Fortunately these are only 3-5 days or so apart, depending on how long you stay where there are no facilities, so you save up. There are folks who don't care-out of sight out of mind-and destroy the beautiful environment but most are aware of the importance of keeping these islands pristine for those who follow.
Today we swim and do boat chores and tomorrow head for Norman's Cay which was the center of a drug smuggling operation in the 70's.
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