Shroud Cay is a great place to visit because of the salt water streams that cross the island that you can drive your dinghy up.
We dinghied to shore and Jackson broke out his drone to get some great video views.
Here's a drone view of Shroud showing some of the inland streams and salt ponds. The ocean (Exuma Sound) is visible at the upper left. We are anchored basically underneath where the drone is hovering.
This is the entrance to the main river across the island that goes all the way through to the Exuma Sound side. At first I wondered who could possible have a jet ski down in the Exumas, which are 50miles from Nassau, but we quickly learned that, unlike 15yrs ago, there are now normally 4-8 megayachts that anchor off Shroud and they bring all their water toys with them including jet skis, electric paddle boards, 35ft tenders with 3-4 300hp motors, etc...
Shroud is now a primary tourist stop for the megayachts.
This is the stream exit on the Exuma Sound side and that's Sue and Jackson on the rocks. When the tidal current is flowing strongly through the narrow opening it creates rapids and people jump off the rocks into the stream and are carried either in or out, depending on the current direction. We were there at a slack tidal current as you can see.
There's a second stream on Shroud that doesn't open to the ocean but stops about 200yds short. Its an easy walk to the ocean from there but you have to avoid the quicksand.
This stream has smaller streams that branch off where you can often see small sharks basking in the warm waters. We didn't see any sharks this trip but we did see several turtles.
Here's one of the turtles we saw. Jackson got some GoPro videos of it.
The end of day one in the Exumas. Tomorrow we will be off for O'Brians Cay where there is some great snorkling.
