Staniel Cay

We left Conception at 10:00 p.m. and headed off for the 75 mile trip to Staniel Cay. The sailing started off great but within a couple of hours the winds slowly turned onto our nose and reluctantly we started up the engines. With only a couple of weeks left we no longer have the luxury of waiting for the wind. Even still it was a beautiful evening with a huge full moon and wonderful calm seas.

We arrived at Staniel Cay and came through the cut in perfect time to anchor and hit the caves at a half hour before low water slack. The caves are a very easy snorkel with the most amazing quantity and variety of fish all waiting to be fed. Fish that are usually timid like the Queen Angelfish, Rock Beauty and Hogfish were in great abundance and it was a lot of fun watching the girls fend off the feeding frenzy as Ron would deposit bread crumbs beside the unsuspecting and soon to be screaming girls. For any of you that have seen the movies Into the Blue and Thunderball, this area was used a lot to do the underwater part of the film.

One of the must do’s before leaving Staniel Cay is to feed the swimming pigs, so we headed off with some new friends from the boat anchored adjacent to us to find the pigs. These pigs supposedly will swim out to your dinghy and even attempt to climb in. We found them and sure enough that is what they did much to everyone’s nervous delight.