Steve and I decided to go to the Iguana island today and look around. You can see a small partial building on the island our friends said were old ruins. We loaded into our dinghy after eating breakfast and traveled over to the island. There had already been a tourist boat there from Nassau to let tourists see and feed the iguanas. It takes us 5-6 hours to travel from Allens Cays to Nassau and it takes them about 30-60 minutes in a high speed boat.  We got over to the keys and immediately saw several small iguana watching us to see if we would feed them. They let you get pretty close, but I don’t want to get to close because they bite. We walked over the hard rock to get to the ruins area. There were several concrete blocks about 3 foot x 2 feet placed like steps to the building. Once we got there we saw all the graffiti written from hundreds of visitors to the islands. (My grandmother said, “fools names and monkeys faces always appear in public places”) There were several iguanas in the old building, the building looked like it was going to be a store or something at one, time all concrete. The iguana kept an eye on us and did not like it when I tried to feed him raisins. He thought I was throwing stuff at him. J You know it surprising how fast a 1.5 foot iguana can move. I was faster, lol. We got in our dinghy and 3 more boats had shown up at the iguana shore. So we loaded up and just took the dinghy around all the little islands and enjoyed the beautiful water that

got even too thin for our dinghy around some coral reefs. We walked onto the other side of the iguana island and found several conch shells tied together in bunches of 5-6. The islanders that harvest conch must throw the shells out there and I want to find out why they are tied in bunches like that. Stay tuned I will find the answer. After exploring that end we went to the south island where the more pinkish iguanas hung out. They were eating lettuce and carrots from the boaters that had anchored out. (2 boats). I got my snorkeling gear out and started snorkeling around the coral sticking out over the water from the banks. I saw several beautiful reef fish, one small barracuda and a lot of live conch and a bunch of empty shells. Steve was in the dinghy following me around so I would be safe.  I love to snorkel in these beautiful island waters. I haven’t seen any sharks yet and I hope I don’t while I am snorkeling. We went back to the boat and sat outside watched the beautiful horizons and enjoyed the weather. Watched the movie cold mountain and went to sleep in the beautiful Exumas Allens Cays.

Captains Log: Boat holds much better with a Bahamian moore.