Allen’s Cay

4-27-2013
We had a good trip to Allen's Cay. David an Emma wanted some pictures of their boat sailing so they came close to us so we could get some good shots. We think they liked the "action shots" They put the boat on auto-pilot and sat on the bow and waved. Then they got in front of us and waved.

Hello, from the bow!

Good-bye from the stern!

We are at Allen’s Cay, Leaf Cay and S W Allen’s Cay. They are all close together and we are anchored between them. We took a dingy ride to Leaf Cay, just across the water and fed the iguana some crackers. As we pulled up to the beach, the iguana started to come out of the bush. There were probably 40-50 on the beach by the time we left. Shay might not like the tomato basil crackers, but the iguanas did. I was recording while Shay fed and he kept throwing the crackers near me. I kept fussing at him to keep the iguanas away from me. I read in the book that they might bite and I didn’t want to find out.  

FFF at Allen's Cay. Before the fun began!

See how close the islands are to each other?



See, they are just not cute and cuddly!

Come and get it!

See how many their are. They just keep coming out of the woods.

Here they come!

This video is of the iguana eating. You can see how mean they are! 



 



This is a place that is known for a swift current and we found out about it that night. We knew the tide would change around midnight. Shay kept getting up to look at our position and about 11:30 he told me to get up. We were getting close to FFF. We watched for a while and saw a light on FFF so we called them on VHF. David said he was going to keep an eye out for a few minutes but he thought we’d be ok. So we sat around waiting. I told Shay I couldn’t see FFF and he looked and they were right behind us. So we went outside and saw we were getting close. Neither boat seemed to be dragging so we figured we were pulling back on our anchor and FFF was pulling forward on theirs. That’s why we got so close. One time FFF’s bow was between our boat and our dinghy. I yelled for David and he came out and asked if we were dragging. I told him I didn’t know what was happening.  They actually ended up on our port side and we don’t know what caused that. We moved our dinghy from behind our boat to our port or left side. Shay said if we had to move the boat, the dinghy would be better there. We even got out a fender to use if they came close to us. Both boats had our engines running in case we had to move quickly. We did move away from FFF a few times.

FFF decided to move to the other side of the island. We knew the tide would change again at around 5:00 am and he didn’t want this to happen again. So they moved and David said when they got to the cut they had some very strange movements going on. He said it seems like a rip current coming thru which was probably what caused all our crazy movements. They anchored with no problems and had a good night.

We had an ok night after that. Shay said he wasn’t worried since we didn’t have a boat near us. Even if we moved around a lot like before, we didn’t have anything to get close to.

The next morning, we watched several tour boats come into Leaf Cay to let the tourists feed the iguana. Wonder what happens when the tourists don’t come around? I guess the iguana eat the vegetation then.

We all met on S. W. Allen’s Cay the next morning to feed the iguana on that island. We had some cocktail wieners that were old so we decided to try to feed those to the iguana. Well, they may be listed as vegetarians, but they loved the wieners! They fought over them.

See how brave I am? I'm standing IN the dinghy, feeding them.

They really really like cocktail wieners!

I have seen pictures of pretty colored iguana, but these just didn’t make it. Now some of them had pink areas, but they were just ugly and mean and prehistoric looking. I think I remember seeing these in old Godzilla movies. That was before all the special effects and they had to use what they had. 

Shay has been talking about heading back to the states. We sat down and plotted a course from Allen’s’ to Nassau then to Fort Pierce. It would take about 32 hours. When he asked our weather guru, David about it, David said no. The weather was not good for that trip now. So we decided to hear to Eleuthera Island. We charted a course for Royal Island, an island off Spanish Wells a town on the NW corner of Eleuthera Island. It will be a long day so we will start early.