Rat Cay

Rat Cay
Here’s a photo album from our last few days anchored off Rat Cay, 15 miles North of Georgetown, Great Exuma. We stopped here to enjoy some quiet, less-traveled beaches before venturing into the very popular anchorages of Georgetown which we’ll be sharing with a couple of hundred other cruising boats.

Turns out Rat Cay might better be named HUGE LOBSTER Cay. Pat and Drew, along with friends Martin and Jonathan from Coxily, speared 4 yesterday, along with several fish. These are by far the largest lobsters they’ve found so far. We had a cookout on the beach to enjoy the day’s catch.

This area, near Barraterre Settlement, has many small uninhabited islands & lovely beaches to explore. At nearby Pigeon Cay, the kids discovered a cut in the rocks which had within it a cave. Not sure how they managed to find the cave - the entrance under a rock ledge had only about 2 feet of clearance! After they managed to shimmy inside on their bellies, it opened up high enough to stand and shake off some sand.