Wardrick Wells

At Wardrick Wells, the Exuma Land and Sea Park Headquarters, we like to spend at least one day in the semicircular mooring field. Swift, erratic currents make the mooring difficult, but once tucked in, you are close to the hiking trails and safe from any storm winds and waves.The hike to Boo Boo Hill to view the signs left by previous visitors is mandatory. We hiked with Lou and Nancy to the top, this time in high tide, which meant wading through knee deep water on some parts of the trail, an adventure which gave us visions of manta rays scuttling out of our reach. We took our dinghys around to the opposite side of Wardrick Wells for the first time and discovered a beautiful, sheltered anchorage to try on the next visit.

Wardrick Wells also offers an enormous coral head garden, with rocks, giant lobsters, colorful coral and fish. The snorkeling is in the park headquarters mooring field and offers an easy, but lovely snorkeling opportunity. This time it also offered a 6 foot nurse shark. We know they are not man-eaters,. We know they are not aggressive, but we left the underwater diving to the shark.