Conception Island

I have to say that the Bahamas consistently have the clearest cleanest waters that we have spent any time in. Our anchorage at Conception Island was in 8 feet of again crystal clear waters over a beautiful white sand bottom. The first priority on arriving was to jump in check out the neighbourhood and then to finish scrubbing the hulls. It is amazing how quickly the barnacles and weed can grow in these warm seas. It wasn’t long after we began scrubbing that we were joined by a couple of southern stingrays and a couple of scrawled cowfish. They seemed to be quite enjoying the morsels that Ron chipped off. We later learned that one of the boaters was feeding bread to these cowfish and actually had it bite the end of her finger. (Re: Comment, this pictures is to show we do let Ron of the boat - after he has finished his todo list)

There is a wonderful coral reef called the kiddies park on the north end of Conception and this is where we introduced Lily to her first snorkeling expedition. She did great and it was fun introducing her to some of our favourite reef fish as well as a couple of very large lobsters.

The thing that makes Conception unique is a wonderful tidal creek that meanders up through the centre of the island through to a mangrove tidal lake. With the dinghy motor on shallow mode we followed it up about a mile and a half. We passed through areas where we saw conch, nurse sharks, many small barracudas and the most amazing turtle pool. There were probably at least two dozen turtles in a pool with the diameter of about 75 feet. This is probably the largest concentration of turtles that we have seen todate.