Great day diving Guana Cay

What a beautiful day! The wind has slacked down, the water is crystal clear, and we are anchored in Baker's Bay, with its beautiful sandy curved beach.

We filled tanks and went to the outside to dive some of the reef. The spot we chose was about 50' to the sand, with rock formations towering up to about 20'. There were sandy chutes between the rocks, where you could swim through the chutes, though a few narrowing to almost 3'.

We saw several large snapper, a few small nassau grouper, a gag, I think, and assorted smaller fish. I saw no lobster, and no lionfish. There was just a little (almost none) blue green algae, but much of the coral was dead.

After our dive, we looked at some of the reef that came up from 60' to breakers in just a few feet. Even with it calm, I wouldn't have put a boat there unattended for the length of a dive. But, it was pretty spectacular to look at, and we were cold! We decided that was the last dive without our shorties!

Later that afternoon, I got a second dive in, very similar conditions, but a few more chutes, and a few more fish!

We remained anchored in Baker's Bay on Wednesday night.

Baker's Bay and diving off Guana north end

We woke up after a night in Fisher's Bay, and eased to the north just a couple of miles to Baker's Bay, with its long curving beach. We anchored and went ashore and watched a tractor pulling a seaweed removal and beach raking machine up and down the mile long beach. I hoped he wasn't going to yell at us for making crazy footprints all over his manicured beach! He just smiled and waved at us.

Then we loaded dive gear into the Whaler, and set out for the outside. We found a great spot to dive, using the bottom machine. There was sand at 45' with rocky formations up to about 20-ish. There were narrow cuts to swim thru, and great formations. The coral didn't look to good, and there weren't many tropicals, although we did see some fish, and a very large snapper, and one small nurse shark.

After our dive, we slid through the reef, and returned to the boat for lunch, and to fill the dive tanks.

Then we went out again, to the inshore reef on the Atlantic side, and did some snorkeling. We stopped by the Atlantic side beach on the way back. The surf was rolling in, and Allen did a little body surfing and wave hopping.

Then we returned to the boat and have free internet! Pork chops for supper.. Life is good! I bet we go to bed at dark tonight!

Fowl Cay and Anchored off Guana Cay

After we fueled and gassed the two boats, and Linda did deep breathing for ten minutes trying not to have a heart attack at the bill... $5.90/diesel, $6.45 gas + 5% to put it on a credit card!.. we began our adventure.

We went out North Man-o-War cut to see how the ocean swells were, then came back in and anchored behind Fowl Cay, and took the Whaler and went snorkeling. We found one spot that we need to come back to with tanks. The water is pretty clear.

We came back to the sound side and went to the beach. We snorkeled in the rain, but it dried out by the time we went to the beach.

Then we eased up and anchored off Fischers Bay of Guana Cay, enjoying out last night of internet service for a little while.

It looks like the weather is finally going to turn pretty, and I'm looking forward to that.

At sundown today we heard some folks blowing the traditional conch trumpet heralding the sundown. It was nice.