Allens-Pensacola Cay

Abacos, Bahamas
26.59.333N
77.41.225W

Another great day of fun and fishing. Bob hailed us on the radio this morning to see if we would be interested in going on a “weenie dive.” What he told me this meant was a dive which would be less likely of running into “the men in grey suits”; I guess he heard that I don’t play well with sharks. Well of course we’d be interested! Jim & Betsy on Two By Sea had left last evening for Treasure Cay to pick up their daughter and granddaughter for a visit. Aye Doc with Stacy & Nancy left for the Carter Cays early this morning. That left just the four of us to take on the sea.

Bob & Caron picked us up about an hour later and we headed to the ocean side of Umbrella Cay to the north of where we are anchored. We went about a mile offshore and found some shallow reefs to dive. The four of us jumped in and Dale and I swam around one patch reef but then cut across when the water started getting really murky. We saw a ray, lots of reef fish, and some Flamingo Tongues (a class of gastropods - according to my book) which are really pretty snails.

We all climbed back into Bobcat, their dink, and headed off shore another mile for some wreck diving. What a hoot. The debris field for this particular wreck was huge. Caron decided to hang back but I grabbed my camera, jumped in and snapped away. We got the coordinates for the site from Bob and will definitely have to come back another time. Its one of those wreck dives you could poke around on all day.

Bob took the long way home trolling for grouper and hogfish or mutton snapper but all we caught was yellow tail snapper. They were pretty small so they were released back in for another day of fishing.

We made it back to the boat at 3pm. Hard to believe we spent the entire day mostly in the water but it was a blast. I took 70 pictures of which 10 were immediately deleted. I’m going to have a hard time when we get back home figuring out which pictures are worth printing from our trip. It’ll take a month just to print out the ones I do select.

Tomorrow we’ll hoist our anchor and start heading west toward the Carter Cays. By this time next week, we’ll be home.