Rudder Cay

We traveled a "whopping" 3 miles to get to our next anchorage, Rudder Cay.  The story is that David Copperfield owns the island right before Rudder Cay - Moshu Cay.  He rents it out for over $300,000/week or more!  Copperfield wanted to give his guests something different to see under the water, so he commissioned an underwater artist to sculpt a statue - yep, a grand piano with a mermaid - and had it placed under the water.  His guests now had a scavenger hunt while snorkeling in search of this statue.  Ed and I motored for a while around where it was said to be according to the chart.  We could not find it.  Ed got out his portable GPS, got the coordinates from the chart book, and, voila, we found it.  We got out of the dinghy to snorkel around it.  It was very impressive!  David had the artist make holes in the piano for the wildlife in the sea.

It was cloudy under the water following a storm the night before.  In person I could see it more clearly.  The detail is amazing!  See Ed's blog for a better photo.

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We took our dinghy around this part of the island, but the tide was coming in so we couldn't do any more snorkeling.

Another really neat part of this island was the cave that you could take a boat in!  We saw several tour boats go in there. 

We took our dinghy in and it had some fantastic rock formations in there!
 

This was huge ray we saw outside the cave.
 

 Our time here was short, just 1 night.

Tomorrow's destination - Georgetown - it's the furthest south we will go - and it's our 1/2 way point!