Abacos, Fowl Cay – Another stop at a Marine Park

The humans just can not get enough of snorkelling here in the Bahamas. The waters are clear, shallow and full of life. Mooring balls have been set up in the parks for you to tie your dingy to, so there is no excuse to miss out on the best places to dive.

For all these reasons, and more, the humans decided to stop off at Fowl Cay for a dive before continuing on to Great Guana Cay.

All the best snorkelling is on the Atlantic side of the Cay, but the reefs on this side are too shallow and extensive to risk bringing in the ‘big’ boat, so we anchored up on the Sea of Abacos side and used the dingy to circle round to the reefs.

We were joined by Jake and Sarah on Prospero

The dingy ride through the reefs was not as easy as the humans had first thought. The coral rose up from the sea bottom to just below the waters surface, ready to take out the prop of any passing outboard. They had to pick their way through channels of deeper water to get to the best sights.

But they were well rewarded with some great snorkelling.

Schools of Chub greeted the humans as soon as they jumped out of the dingy

They found lots of large fish, including a parrot fish almost a meter long.

You can see why this is called Brain Coral

Caves and cracks in the reef are filled with tiny silvery sardines — Caves and cracks in the reef are filled with pulsing clouds of tiny silvery sardines

They were fortunate enough to see a Hawksbill turtle.

And do not forget, the ever present, Great Barricuda

2 thoughts on “Abacos, Fowl Cay – Another stop at a Marine Park”

Tony
June 23, 2014, 1:16 pm

Hi Guys what camera do you use to take these brill underwater shots with??
- Quinn Post author
  June 23, 2014, 1:54 pm
  
  We are using a Canon Ixus compact digital camera with an underwater housing. It was an Ebay purchase before we left on this adventure. I believe this camera is discontinued. Most of the compact Canon camera range offer underwater housings. Ocean Leisure, a shop right by embankment tube station, sells cameras and housings. Its a good place to look, and then search online. A lot of people we have met have various models of waterproof cameras without housings, but they have found that the memory card and battery door leaks eventually. We have had no problems with ours. We think using the separate housing is the way to go. If I was to buy one now I would look at the Cannon Powershot S110 with the waterproof housing. We have this camera model now and all the land pictures on the blog are from it. Unfortunately we do not have the matching waterproof housing. I think the underwater results would be fantastic if we did. Hope this all helps.

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