Devils and Hoffman Cays, Berry Islands, Bahamas

The anchorage at Devils and Hoffmans Cay is accessed through a cut next to White Cay and then Fowl, Little Gaulding, and Big Gaulding Cays are in front of the anchorage with sand flats behind the anchorage. There is a great hiking beach on the inside of Devils Cay that goes along the cut beside Little Harbour Cay and around to Northwest Providence Channel water. On Hoffman Cay there are ruins, a blue hole, a mangrove creek and one long sandy beach with a trail across the island to the sandy beach on the deep Northwest Providence Channel "ocean" side. Soldiers Cay is the next island down and there is a shallow draft route from there back behind the islands.

The anchorage between Devils and Hoffman Cays

The cliffs on Devils Cay

Sea bird eggs laid in the sand without a nest

View from Devils Cay to Little Harbour Cay across the cut

Rocky cliffs at Hoffman Cay

Landing at Hoffman Cay
Looking for the next sandy beach
During the rain showers we had a complete rainbow viewed from the cockpit
Looking into the blue hole
Gorgeous cactus blooms on the beach
A Gumbo Limbo limb from the tourist tree as the bark reddens and peels like sunburned tourist
Chimney of overgrown ruins

Our "Perfect Days" totally different than the new Perfect Day at Coco Cay at cruise ship anchorage at tip of Berry Islands

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