We’ve had 3 great days in the O’Briens Cay area and have truly enjoyed everything we’ve seen here. We have explored O’Brien’s Cay, the Pirates Lair at Warderick Wells Cay and swam in the caves at Rocky Dundas. All these adventures required some long distance dinghy rides – always a lot of fun.
Exploration number 1 was on O’Brien Cay. We took the dinghy to the north end of the island and walked across the island to the sound side. There were no beaches on that side but some very interesting rocks! From a second beach (just beside the first one we stopped at) we discovered an interior pond that you really couldn’t see from the water. It was super cool and we walked all the way around it. We were here at low tide so it was very easy to get in and out.
On Saturday we took our longest dinghy ride and travelled about 4 nm up to the south east anchorage at Warderick Wells Cay. This area is called the Pirates Lair. The story is that pirates would anchor and go ashore in this area because the island has fresh water wells. The anchorage itself was very pretty with deep water but also lots of current. It was quite protected from wind and there were 3 mooring balls for cruisers to use. We went ashore and walked across the south tip of the island to Turtle Beach. We saw a few fresh water wells as we walked along the trail. There was one catamaran in the anchorage – we had a brief chat with the man and found out they were from Montreal! Lots of Canadians down here!
Today we decided to leave the O’Briens Cay mooring ball and headed very slightly south to anchor in front of Bell Island (the island owned by the Aga Khan). From this new spot, we took another dinghy ride over to Rocky Dundas – 2 small islands near Compass Cay that have great coral and some caves. There were 2 dinghy moorings so we tied our dinghy to one of them and went exploring. We snorkeled into the 2 caves and were so impressed by what we saw. I only wish I could have brought my phone in to take a few photos – it was quite spectacular! The coral on the outside was also very cool!!
This will be our last night in this area and I feel like we have done a great job exploring it. In the morning (Monday), we’ll be heading north again, this time to Hawksbill Cay. This will be our first visit to Hawksbill so that’s exciting. We’ll probably be there for a few days but may not have wifi.
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 