Category Archives: SCUBA & Snorkeling

Adventures under the water.

Keith’s Perspective on Nassau and Warderick Wells, The Bahamas/Le point de vue de Keith sur Nassau et Warderick Wells, aux Bahamas

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January 3 – 9, 2026 – This week has been fun. On Saturday, Zimovia and Tiki Tour left the anchorage. Mom, Dad and I cleaned the bottom of the boat. On Sunday, we went to Nassau. The passage took all day. We arrived at a marina, docked, then went to dinner at the marina restaurant. 

Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi, Zimovia et Tiki Tour sont partis de l’ancrage. Maman, papa et moi avons nettoyé le fond du bateau. Dimanche, nous sommes allés à Nassau. Le passage a pris toute la journée. Nous sommes arrivés à la marina, nous nous sommes amarrés, puis nous avons mangé le dîner au restaurant de la marina. 

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Snorkeling at Warderick Wells, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Thursday, January 8, continued… Keith got ready to go snorkeling. Eric and Keith went to the ranger station to check in. Christi stayed behind to make lunch and dinner. Tiki Tour had also moved from Shroud to Warderick this morning and had moored in The Horseshoe. The Tiki crew and their guests — a family with two kids close in age to Keith — met Eric and Keith at the beach by the ranger station. The kids played on the beach. After a couple of hours, Eric returned to Kosmos to eat lunch and to pick Christi up. Keith said he wasn’t hungry and asked to stay with the other kids.

At about 1600, Eric and Christi returned. They found the group snorkeling in the pass.

The snorkelers saw a group of twelve spotted eagle rays and they followed the rays for quite a while. They said the rays were amazing. From the dinghy, all Christi and Eric could see were black blobs that looked like moving rocks.

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Keith’s Perspective on Our Time in the Staniel Cay Area/Le point de vue de Keith sur notre séjour dans la région de Staniel Cay

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December 6 – December 12, 2025 — This week has been very boring. On Saturday, we moved from Royal Island to Highbourne Cay. On Sunday, we moved from Highbourne Cay to Staniel Cay. 

On Monday, the anchorage was rolly. Dad and I went to shore to get some lunch, but Mom stayed on board because she had some sort of important call thingy to do. Because the currents were so strong, we had to go around the back of the island for a more comfortable ride. We went through this really narrow pass. When we tried to get back to the boat, we couldn’t get through the pass because the currents were so strong! We had to wait around on a beach for what felt like a billion years. Eventually, some French charterers came over and they towed us through the pass with their fast dinghy. 

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Thunderbolt Grotto and Moving to Black Point, Exuma Islands, The Bahamas

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Dawn on Friday, December 12

And the sunrise.

This morning, the wind shifted back to the prevailing winds from the east. This meant we could finally go back to Thunderball Grotto. Coincidentally, this week Keith studied limestone rock and its erosion patterns in science. Thunderball Grotto was the perfect place to see the effects of erosion!

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