Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Peace & Plenty Beach ClubD3
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Big D's Conch SpotB1
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Café AleshaC3
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Chat n Chill Bar & GrillD3
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Cheater's Restaurant & BarD4
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Exuma Point RestaurantA1
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Fish & FryD3
ACTIVITIES
This is an excellent area for all water sports, especially boating of any kind, even for ama-
teurs.
Diving & Snorkeling
The Exumas are replete with some fantastic snorkel and dive sites, including spectacular
blue holes and caves, many of which have safety lines.
For great snorkel sites head for the schools of small and vibrant fish around
Bird Cay
;
the odd-shaped
Duck Cay North
;
Duck Cay South
, a tiered reef that looks like an un-
derwater wedding cake; and the shallow reefs of the
Three Sisters Rock
.
Harbour Buoy Portside
is a very active reef with lots of marine life, as is
Jolly Hall
, a
favored hatchery for grunts and yellowtail snapper.
Loaded Barrel Reef
has plenty of fish
species inhabiting its wide sea beds, as well as staghorn coral.
Harbour Buoy Starboard
is home to large brain corals, as are the shallow reefs of
Liz Lee Shoals
.
There are some fabulous dive sites, and one of the easiest is
Stingray Reef
, where shal-
low waters are full of snapper, angelfish, grunts and stingrays.
Experienced daredevils may wish to try the
Angelfish Blue Hole
, a vertical shaft which
starts at 30ft below the surface and falls to 90ft before leveling into a network of caves full
of soft sponges and schooling angelfish. Another deep orifice,
Crab Cay Blue Hole
is a
40ft-wide crevasse up to 90ft deep, with archways inhabited by lobsters, snappers and stin-
grays.
South of Stocking Island, access to Mystery Cave (
Click here
) begins at 15ft below the
surface and drops to 100ft, and is another one for the experienced.
Some outfits:
Dive Exuma
DIVING, SNORKELING
( 242-336-2893;
www.dive-exuma.com
;
February Point, Queen's Hwy) Highly recom-
mended, this operator offers packages of six dives for $480 including all equipment, though
there's a 10% reduction for a booking made four days in advance.
Turtle Divers
DIVING, SNORKELING
