From Cambridge Cay we next went to Shroud Cay, still in the Exuma Park. The neat experience at Shroud is the salt water creek that goes nearly across the island, about 2 miles, which you can dinghy up (at all but low tide we found out). The creek is lined on both sides by mangroves. We saw lots of fish, two nurse sharks and many conch in the small tributaries.
Initially, we were able to motor up the creek. Then we hit sections where we had to resort to poling as it was only a couple hours after low tide.
Finally it was no go poling and it was time to resort to dragging. Genny got to ride but Sue had to walk along with me. Fortunately, that's the end of the creek just up ahead. There is a strip of sand about 100yds wide between the end of the creek and the ocean on the other side. The ocean waters pass through the sand and come up into the creek which flows to the western shore.
The reward for trekking up the creek (other than all the pretty fish in the creek) is the beautiful beach on the ocean shore side. Noone lives on Shroud Cay so this is your private beach for the day.
Genny had a good time walking the beach and cooling her feet in the surf. No interesting shells on this beach as it was all deep, fine sand. The brown debris is Sargasso seaweed that washes up on all the beaches facing the Atlantic Ocean.
