Publish Date: Monday, December 29, 2008
Location: Cambridge Cay, Exumas, Bahamas
What a great park! The place we spent christmas was Warderick Wells in the Exuma Land and Sea Park. The Exuma Land and Sea park was the first marine national park ever! Because of my ocean love, it was so cool to be there and see it.
You can’t anchor, and they don’t want marinas, so for the first time ever, we were able to experience the hooking up of mooring balls. This was pretty easy, and we were stress free! Around the bay were the mooring balls, then in the middle was just this sudden sand bar that was about up to my ankles, where before, I couldn’t even touch! I had lots of fun swimming from our boat to there.
The hiking was great too. There were 10 trails ranging from 10 minutes to 2 hours. On the first day, we did a 30 minute hike up to BooBoo hill! BooBoo hill is a place where cruisers carve their name in to pieces of driftwood they found and place it at the top. We saw lots of people we knew. The next day, we went on a 2 hour hike. I felt like survivors on an island! At the end, we found old ruins of a plantation from the 1780’s! Can you imagine the people that used to live there? 
Animals were another fun part. I saw the HUGEST hermit crab. It was really a hermit crab with a shell and the color and shape, but he was the size of my fist, and I didn’t really want to toy with him. We also saw a Bull Shark swimming around. I had never seen one up close, and it pretty much ruined my swimming for that mooring field. He was about 6 feet long, and, well, looked a little ferocious. I know that they won’t hurt me, but still…do we really want to swim with a 6 foot long shark?