Marinas or Anchorages Near to the Exumas

I love the southern exumas, south of staniel. Fat fewer boats (not that the northern Exumas are crowded...) and great anchorages. Great Guana has a few nice spots, little farmer, big farmer, rudder and especially Lee Stocking. Gtown is nice as well and some great spots near little Exuma too like Pigeon Cay and Sandy Cay where scenes for pirates of the carib 2 were shot

Video I put together a couple of years ago, south to north.

Here is Sandy Cay, not included in the first video

The only marina is Exuma YC, best described as rustic. We usually go if you have a large group of guests flying in or out.


In season most boats anchor near Chat n Chill and it can be crowded by Exumas standards. We either anchor past monument beach, at the NW end of the anchorage (amazing beaches)

At 0:15 this video will Show you the spot.




Another great spot is at the end of stocking, where Elizabeth island starts. Deep and roomy, good holding. Great beaches and sandbars between the two.

Most overlooked marina/island is Cave Cay. Very well protected marina, concrete floating docks, interesting island and you generally have the entire marina to yourselves. It's only about 20 NM South of Staniel Cay, but there is an amazing sandbar just West of it at low tide. The piano and mermaid are just South of it a few miles off of Musha Cay........interesting sea turtles and really beautiful beach just North of Cave Cay........guys at the marina......Steve and Shark offer great hospitality.

Problem with Cave, besides the fact that there is nothing there, is the 5’ hump at the entrance... and no views. Great in a blow but otherwise I’d rather anchor.

Rudder Cut Cay is one of the most scenic anchorages in the Exumas. No... make that in the Bahamas. Palm tree lined beach, drive in cave, hills... perfect view.

Here is video I realized I never uploaded... that’s the area at the south end of stocking, Georgetown. That’s the anchorage I mentioned earlier. Note that the charted reefs on the south of the anchorage are much deeper than charted No concern

It's 6' going into Cave. Yeah but you can wander the island yourself. The view South from the marina has a nice exposed beach but yeah the marina view isn't much. But good dock, shorepower, water if you need it and totally calm.......everything close by. I haven't had a chance to check out rudder cut cay, will have to do that one day.

Shroud is beautiful, the creek to Camp Driftwwod is amazing but too many boats now especially mega yachts setting up tents and stuff at the end of the creek. I prefer the south end of Hawksbill, lots to explore at the south tip.

There is always plenty of room to anchor at Shroud, that s not the concern. It s about too many boats ruining the view .

at Norman’s we anchor up near Galleon Point at the north end. Nice beaches and sandbars. Isolated. We used to anchor in the cut, near the bottom of boot cay but construction has ruined the anchorage.

C-map is based on explorer charts which are best. Explorer charts are also available in Aquamap (iPad and iPhone app).

what you don’t want to use in the Bahamas is Navionics. Way off on many places