The Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park covers 176 protected square miles of spectacular subtropical waters, coral reefs and fish breeding grounds. It was established in 1958 by the Bahamian government and is managed by a nonprofit organization set up to manage the park, the Bahamian National Trust. It includes 15 cays and is the worlds first land and sea park designation. The park headquarters are on Warderick Wells. There are no restroom facilities, water, or garbage disposal on the Cay. The lack of glass and plastic bottles in the water and on land and the cleanliness of the beaches and trails is a testament to the people who visit here and respect the parks purpose while enjoying its beauty.
One afternoon we took a dingy ride with our friends Don and Cindy to Rendevous Beach to see the ruins of an eighteenth-century Loyalist settlement. The trail was steep and rocky( not a surprise as the island is a rock). After a much longer and tougher trail than expected we reached the top of the hill and the ruins. They were ruins alright! They actually looked like the foundation of two very small buildings that were never finished. The exception being the building material was rock. We tried to imagine what it would have looked like in the 18th century. The two houses were no bigger than our master bedroom at home. A far fetch from the larger than necessary mansions that we see now days. The view of the water was worth the trek up the hill, or at least I thought it was!
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Notice the outside of the walls is rock. We are not sure how they smoothed the inside back then?
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This was a wall across the land we assume marking the settlement boundary . This is also what our trail up hill looked like!
We noticed that people would group rocks together in random places.
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