I guess they ran out of names. There are so many Cays (pronounced Key) down here that this time they drew a blank. It's actually an interesting stop since there are a few picnic tables set up here and there.
Rumor has it that Santa visits this small beach also.
Anyway it's a few miles in the dink out to the Cay so we shot out there while the weather was good and hoped for the best on the way back since the forcast was for improving weather. We did some shelling whenever we could but given we were in the lee of the island there wasn't much to be found. Except conch shells. They were everywhere. I suspect that the locals find them out in the shallows and bring them to the picnic grounds for a snack. All of the shells we saw had the hole up towards the small end indicating someone harvested the snail and threw the shell over the side for it to wash up on the beach.
But we saw a good sized Trigger Fish, and some more rays. Not the spotted ones, but the McUgly guys with the barbs.
All in all a smooth ride and it was great to hit some beaches that are off the beaten path. The only sad part of this is that there is plenty of debris from boats, or garbage scows, that washes up on the shore. Pretty sad given the environment here.
I've uploaded the GPS tracks for the day.
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