After our lovely snorkel on Fowl Cay, we lifted anchor and made our way to the next Cay north, Great Guana Cay.
Our cruising guide recommends you sail by the Settlement Harbour and anchor up just north of it, in Fishers Bay.
It is a nicer anchorage for me, because it has a beach, and it is only a 5 minute walk into the centre of town. A popular anchorage for charter boats, the local dive centre has put in mooring balls at $20/night. There is still plenty of room to anchor, if you do not mind being a little further out.
There is an excellent bar on the beach, with their own salt water pool, or you can wander into town.
The town and harbour is small, but has everything you could need.
A lovely little place, but I must admit, we had one destination in mind. There was meant to be a bar on the Atlantic side of the island, that had ‘it all’. The place is meant to have two pools, a great beach front and even good snorkelling. We dragged our snorkelling gear along and followed the signs.
We had a great time at Nippers. A change in wind direction and the fantastic snorkelling drove us to search out an anchorage around the Atlantic side of the Cay the next day.
We negotiated a windy passage through sand banks, small cays and reefs to find a lovely little anchorage on the north west side of Great Guana Cay.
No longer in a National Park, and hyped by the abundance of large fish they had seen on the Atlantic side of the Cays, the humans were determined to catch fish with their Bahamian slings.
But, no sooner did they enter the water, then the reef seemed to sense what their intensions were. Rarely spotted sharks started circling round. First one reef shark, then another, then a couple of huge nurse sharks joined in.
With so many sharks around they had to give up empty handed.
But we can’t stay long. We have to keep moving north.
