Amy’s favorite place is little Tee Cay at the eastern end of Little San Salvador and we waited a couple days for a couple of days forecasted to be very calm and then we made an early departure from Cat Island  to Little San Salvador arriving late morning.  There was still quite a bit of swell from the south and a little still from the north so we threaded our way  thru the coral heads into the north side of Little San Salvador, one of the very few areas not well charted by the Explorer Charts.  We anchored in surprisingly deep water (22 ft) with a nearly continuous coral reef about 200 ft off the north shore, some of it above low tide.  We took the dingy about a mile to the north to Goat Cay ( actually 3 small islands) where we found a small sandy beach with 3 lounge chairs all set up.  There was an interesting cave but the coral prevented us from getting close but we were able to dive the small coral off the beach - lots of fish with no fear of humans.

We went over to the beautiful north shore beach and spent a couple hours beach combing.  Little San Sal is a cruise ship island used by several different cruise lines and one of the nicest bays in the Bahamas but none of the passengers ever gets to the north shore so the beach combing is quite good and we   got plenty of interesting floatsom.  Ed spotted a small owl on the beach bobbing her head and getting closer so the nest - it was a burrowing owl, one of 3 we saw, with the nest just above the high tide line.

The wind died that night and we carefully threaded our way back out and over to Tee Cay, it seemed like the boat was just floating in the air the water was so calm and clear.  Again, lots of shells for Amy, lots of fish and a garden of sea fans and one large barracuda who did not seem to be that interested in us.  Before we left, Ed decided to clean the keels since the water was so calm and clear and when he was done, noticed a big conch shell under the boat ( we had not seen any large conchs in a long time) and then noticed it moved so swam down and picked it up

We motored another 6-7 miles to the west end of the island where the cruise ships anchor and disgorge their thousands of passengers, anchored and wandered ashore thru the empty village. We did meet the island manager who lives there with his wife and a couple others.  The rest of the 120 daily workers come over from southern Eleuthera - an hour and a half trip each way.  Since the cruise ships had left earlier in the afternoon, we missed out on the fabled buffet lunch where the staff turns a blind eye to any cruisers who join the passengers for food.   We were up early to leave just as a new cruise ship was arriving and with favorable winds, sailed all the way to Rock Sound where we are sitting for a few days until the forecasted strong NW winds subside.