Category Archives: Activities

Things we have done during our travels.

Snorkeling and Diving The Piano at Rudder Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Just before the sunrise on Friday, January 23

A popular tourist attraction in the area was a statue of a mermaid about to play a piano that David Cooperfield had sunk for an activity for his resort guests. After Christi and Keith finished school, Eric and Keith snorkeled the statue with Bogumilia.  

We’d read that the statue was hard to see while snorkeling because it was kind of deep, and they recommended going at low tide, when it was only about 10-feet down, for the best views. While they could see it, it was tough. Low tide meant a strong current, and it took a lot of strength to stay in place over the statue in order to get a good look at it. From what they could see, it appeared the statue was a 1:1 scale of a person and a grand piano.

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Keith’s Perspective on Compass Cay and Blackpoint/Le point de vue de Keith sur Compass Cay et Blackpoint

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January 10 – 16 — This week hasn’t been much fun. On Saturday, we left Warderick Wells and went to Compass Cay. It was super uncomfortable there. We went to the Bubble Bath in the afternoon. 

Cette semaine était pas amusante. Samedi, nous sommes partis Warderick Wells et nous sommes allés à Compass Cay. C’était très inconfortable là-basu. L’après-midi nous sommes allés au Bubble Bath. 

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Moving to the South Side of Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Tuesday, January 13

Normally, in an anchorage, boats faced the wind and took any wind waves on the nose. Yesterday morning, the wind was hitting Kosmos on her port side instead of on the bow, which meant the current was so strong that it was overriding the wind in determining which direction Kosmos faced. Having the wind hitting us on the port made the motion onboard different from what was normal in an anchorage — it wasn’t a bad motion, it was just not a typical motion, so we felt a bit off kilter.

In the morning, we did school and chores. At about 1300, we moved to the south end of the island, to an anchorage that would be more protected in the coming winds. The ride took about 30 minutes and we had to go through two scary passes that were both narrow and shallow.

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Bubble Baths and Bonfires on Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Sunday, January 11

And the sunrise.

The seas had died down overnight and this morning it was much calmer in the anchorage. We puttered around the boat in the morning. Tiki Tour had arrived yesterday afternoon, and we met them onshore at 1330 to go back to Rachel’s Bubble Bath. This was looking back at Kosmos on the walk over to the Bubble Bath.

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Back to Rachel’s Bubble Bath on Compass Cay, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Saturday, January 10

This morning, we brought in paravane pole and snubber, then pulled up anchor at around 0730 and headed to Compass Cay. Last time, we came down the ocean side of the island. This morning, winds were 12 – 18 knots from the east with gusts to 24-knots, which meant the ocean would be an uncomfortable ride. Eric decided to take the lagoon side.

Even in the more protected waters of the lagoon, it was a bit of a lurchy ride. We couldn’t take the most direct route because it was too shallow, but we were able to utilize deeper channels (that had probably been dredged), which eventually got us there. The majority of the channels were plenty wide and deep for Kosmos… until the last one. The channel directly into Compass Cay from the lagoon side was very narrow and barely deep enough for us.

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