Great Gauna Cay

We find ourselves meandering; progressing along a couple of miles each day from beach to beach on Great Gauna Cay.  Our first anchorage was Crawl Bight, our 2nd was at Fisher's Bay, 3rd - Crossing Bay and our 4th was at Baker's Bay.  

                    Crawl Bay was spectacular as it is beside a channel open to the Atlantic Ocean. 

Our first ride over in the dinghy was quite a wild one as we rode in to the incoming tidal surf.  On our 2nd trip we were able to walk out to the sandbars at low tide. 

                               4 Tropicbirds entertained us with their chattering at Crawl Bight. 

This is not my photo but it shows more clearly how beautiful the tropicbirds are with their long sweeping tails.  When they fly over the water the turquoise colour reflects on to their white underbelly.  Unlike "gulls", tropicbirds chatter back and forth between each other.

We made a hasty retreat from Fisher's Bay after we watched a tug with a barge skim between the boats on anchor.  We also weren't too sorry to escape the jet skis coming out of the resort on the beach there.

                  At Crossing Bay we were shocked to see the wreck of a catamaran on the beach.

Numerous ferries and barges were bringing workers and construction material in to the commercial dock at Crossing Bay.  Reconstruction and development is underway everywhere we look.  Right now the beaches are ours to enjoy but we can see that may not be the case in the future.

                                Baker's Bay offered the longest beach and the best shelling to date.

The shells on Baker's Bay beach look like bubbles in the sand.

A very interesting huge building is centre stage on the crescent of beach.  We wondered if it was a church.  They were doing reconstruction work on it as was the case with most of the buildings.