Cave Cay #1

We came into Cave Cay along with our friends, Bruce and Gayleen, on Pearl to escape 50 knot winds. It turned out to be a nice marina overall.      It was a work in progress, though. They had a bath house with showers with plenty of hot water (most of the time. Someone left the hot water on in the other shower that I was in and all I had was cold water. I was hot after a long walk, so the cold water actually felt pretty good.) Only 1 of the 2 toilets was working and the sink faucet turned all the way around, and no one swept or dried the wet floor the whole time we were there. Everything else was very nice. They had free washing machines, which is a welcome change from $3.00 a load at other places. There were no dryers, so we hung up our clothes on the lifelines of the boat. My wash load was Ed's and mine underwear so our boat looked pretty funny for a while with undies blowing in the wind! The man on the boat next to ours said our boat reminded him of his college days when there would be panty raids in the girls' dorms!

Cave Cay Marina

There was a runway on the island where small planes landed and took off from there. Often the planes are delivering provisions to a nearby island that doesn't have an airport. I was told Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have an island close by as well as David Copperfield. We saw David Copperfield's island the day we left this island.

I had asked a question a day or so before this stop if sea planes could land on land as well as water.  My question was answered when we watched a sea plane land on this runway. 

Walking the runway

There was a cave on the island and we were told to ask Shark, the dock master, for a tour.  Because of the influx of boats coming in seeking shelter, Shark was too busy to walk us there. When he got free enough after a couple of days, it was the day that it rained, so we didn't get to see the cave. Instead, we took a nice long walk around some of the island with Bruce and Gayleen and found several beaches with lots of shells.

Old Coral walkway

Gayleen

Bruce

We found some live creatures that looked like snails. We took about 8 of them back to the boat, and from Shark's cooking directions, I boiled them, took them out of their shell, got rid of the parts I didn't think were edible and cut up the rest, sauted them in butter and garlic. This was my lunch that day. No one else wanted even a taste! They were very good. Tasted like conch to me. Chewy just like conch.

 

Chewy - but Yummy!