After fueling we headed further north to see the Pigs at Big Major's Spot. As we entered Dothan Cut from Exuma Sound to the Bank, we were hit with a down pour with near zero visibility. Fortunately we were through the narrow cut when the worst hit. We found a spot to anchor toward the north end of the anchorage near Fowl Cay, where we stayed for six days.
This is one of our favorite places in the Exumas. Besides the swimming pigs, which Jackie gets really excited about ( we keep a short leash on her so she doesn't become their lunch), their are many islands and beaches to explore by dingy, and reefs to snorkel, a great restaurant at the boutique Fowl Cay a Resort, a restaurant and bar at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club, and a grocery store not far from the Yacht Club.
Big Majors has good protection from everything but the west. Chris Parker had warned us that a storm was forming off Cuba and would hit us from the west two days into our intended stay. Their are very few places in the Exumas with 360 protection from a passing storm. As the storm was predicted to pass quickly we decided to ride it out with 70 plus boats also in the cove. The Storm, was later designed Tropical Storm Ana. The storm passed mid morning with gusts of 45 mph. We helplessly watched a couple in a 40 ft plus sloop who's anchor was dragging have to raise the anchor and reset it in the middle of the storm with driving rain. If they had not reacted they would have been washed ashore on the rocks only a couple hundred feet behind them.
Two weeks later we were docked behind a 55 ft Nordhavn in Palm Beach that had rode Ana out next to us. Aboard for the storm was the captain and his first mate wife. The owners had flown from Staniel Cay to Nassau the day before to ride the storm out the storm at the Atlantis.
Sunset After Tropical Storm Ana
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