Exploring The Exumas

I typically don’t ask the crew about their favorite parts of a charter until it’s done. After all, how can you pick a highlight on, say, Day 2? I broke that rule, though, on a recent sail through the Exumas, the chain of Bahamian islands that extends in a southeasterly direction from Nassau on New Providence Island down to Georgetown on Great Exuma. The reason I asked is because we saw and did so much it became too hard to keep it all straight. Not surprisingly, their answers varied. One thing we all agreed on, though, was that a single week wasn’t going to be enough to even scratch the surface of this cruising ground, and we’d definitely be coming back for more.

We landed in Nassau, rented a car and crisscrossed the island for a day, scoping out the best place for fresh conch salad, eventually scoring with Dino’s on the northwest side of the island near our hotel at Ocean West Boutique. Unfortunately, provisioning the next day was a bit tougher. The problem was that while we found liquor and wine at 700 Wines and Spirits (a chain) and the best provisioning store on the island, it was on the opposite side from the Sunsail base at Palm Cay Marina (). As a result,, our Sunsail 454.