Shortly after dropping our anchor, we took the station wagon (aka dinghy) ashore and walked on a path with JoAnne, Bill, Joanne, and Mark.  We walked to a nearby beach on the other side of the cay.  The outcroppings of coral are everywhere.  We were there at low tide, so we were able to find many water critters hiding in the coral.  There is always a sandy beach and then the dead coral.  This is a private island, meaning someone owns it, but visitors are allowed to walk on several designated beaches.   In the photo above, the water is Exuma Sound (ocean).

As we walked on the path, we came to an area where visitors had taken items washed up on the shores and built a “camp.”  They had hung several hammocks from ropes, a tire swing, lamps, chairs, etc. 

Later in the day, we went snorkeling.  One place we went to is called “The Aquarium” and it was fantastic.  Snorkeling in an area like this is truly like swimming inside an aquarium. 

Tonight Sunspot Baby’s Lynn and George organized sundowners on the beach.  We are getting to know more and more cruisers as we tend to move along at about the same speed and are all headed south towards Georgetown.  Lynn and George are actually working for the park for two weeks, collecting money from the people on mooring balls, visiting newcomers and handing out information about the park.  The get-together on the beach was fun, and then we headed back “home.”  We (Ultra, Avalon, and us) had decided this was “pizza night” and we had made three pizzas, delivering them to the other two boats earlier in the day.  Each of us baked our own, and they all came to our boat for dinner.  It is now nice enough to eat out in the cockpit area.  Tomorrow, we’ll be ready by 9:30, slack tide, to go snorkeling again.  For more photos of Cambridge Cay, click here.