Shroud Cay
Shroud Cay is the northern gateway to the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, and it is really a mangrove system rather than an island. You take the tender up a tidal creek that runs right through it to a beach on the ocean side.
The creek run
At the right state of tide you can run a tender through the mangrove creeks from the bank side to the Exuma Sound side, drifting over sand in water a couple of feet deep with turtles and small sharks underneath. It is one of the best hours of a Bahamas week and costs nothing. Go on a rising tide and keep the engine slow: it is a nursery, not a thoroughfare.
Driftwood Beach and the lookout
The creek comes out at a beach on the eastern side with a steep little climb behind it to a lookout once known as Camp Driftwood. The view north and south along the cays from the top is the photograph everyone takes.
Park rules
Shroud is inside the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, which is a no-take zone. No fishing, no shelling, no collecting anything. Moorings and anchoring are managed by the park and your captain books ahead.
Anchoring and conditions
Yachts lie off the western shore in sand. It is comfortable in easterlies and exposed when the wind goes west, which is the usual pattern through the park.
Send us your dates and party size and we will put together a shortlist of crewed yachts that can take you here.