Flamingo Cay (Jumentos)

What happens when two boats meet at sea? They race! Of course we do, even when we're not. Yesterday, sv Beta couldn't catch us. Today, we couldn't catch them. Pretty much identical boats, so go figure.

We traveled from Brigantine Cay off Great Exuma's west coast, to the Jumentos' Flamingo Cay which is a popular overnight spot to get down to the Raggeds. It is well protected to the east, not so well any other wind direction. Fortunately, we had strong easterly winds.

Our first try at anchoring broke out of the sand, so we had to re-anchor. That's common here, the sand top must be thin.

We went ashore looking for a reported cave, but we just ended up in the brush, surrounded by small cacti. We surrendered, gave all our money to the cacti, and reversed course.

As a consolation prize, we took a marked path to the N anchorage, and another one to the ocean (E) coast. We met sv Rex (Marshall, Sara, 2 boys) on the way, whom we had passed on the way to Flamingo.Read more