Bahamian Iguanas

   Tuesday was a good weather day, but winds from north of east (plus 5ft seas) meant we couldn't sail to Eleuthera, so we decided to go explore Bitter Guana, the island just to the north, where wild iguanas live - and no people.
 

   The sign says don't feed the iguanas, but the iguanas came running to greet us, so obviously someone is feeding them. Sure enough, a local Bahamian arrived shortly with a bucket of fruit and veggies for them.

   So we can now put off our visit to the Galapagos as we have seen the wild iguanas of the Bahamas. Of course these iguanas do stay on land like normal iguanas and don't swim like those in the Galapagos (or the pigs at Big Major), but they look the same and have no fear of humans.

   There were about 30 in this group of iguanas. We saw a few more further up the island shore who missed out of the morning feeding session.

   We went exploring further up the island shore and spotted this large ocean osprey nest. One osprey stayed on the nest the whole time, apparently sitting on eggs, while her mate to lower left kept a watchful eye on us and loud warning cries.

   We had some success fishing the rocky shoreline but fortunately we don't have to sustain ourselves on these meager catches.  We went to Scorpio's for happy hour and had Grouper fingers and rum punch for dinner. A very enjoyable day in the Bahamas.