Romantic Cave Swimming with Flesh Eating Shrimp in the Bahamas 61 Sailing Saoirse

This week we go on a romantic cave swim with flesh eating shrimp!! We pick up anchor at Lee Stocking and head out the cut, we have to do lots of tacking but we make it through the ok, watching the waves crashing on the reef as we pass through. Our next stop is Little Farmers Cay here in the Exumas.

As always, when we are sailing we have to be super adaptable of what the wind is doing and change plans accordingly. We like to say we have ideas not plans. Instead of taking Farmer’s Cay Cut, closer to the anchorage, we decide to take Gulliot Cut because it is getting later in the day. To our pleasant surprise, after an easy sail through the cut, the conditions on the Caribbean side are way more favorable than in the Atlantic side. We pick up to seven knots and fly on into Little Farmer’s Cay with time to spare before the sunset.

We hop into the water just a shot dinghy ride from the boat. It was a small reef, but full of life. We spotted some grouper, a barracuda, an albino stingray, lots of colorful reef fish and an eel hiding along the reef.

After we finish up the dive, we hike up to a lens pool cave. BUT first we need to find it. We search and search, take in the amazing sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean and FINALLY stumble onto the cave. We head in and it was gorgeous. Lots of stalactites dripping fresh water into the pools of water beneath them. This is the first cave we have been in with pools of water that you can swim. We decide to get in… but unaware to us, during this romantic swim, we were going to be rudely interrupted by some shrimp nipping at us. Even with the shrimp, we highly recommend this cave!

Music:

Atmospherica – Squiid
Cornelia – The Eastern Plain
Longing For You – Qeeo
Osaka – Niklas Ahlström

big love,
beau, brandy, and our salty dog, oona

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