Day 8 & 9, Fowl Cay and Scotland Cay

Wind is good for us today, so sails up and we are headed to Fowl Cay. Fowl Cay is a quarter mile reef located on the ocean side. It is a great place to dive and snorkel. It is well known among divers for its tunnels and wide variety of fish. On the opposite side is a small sand spit, great for relaxing and picnics.
We walked a bit on the little beach, that is really a little slice of heaven. Mostly it was our own, but every once in a while we had guests come to visit.
It was a little rough so we didn't snorkel the reef but we did go just inside of that. We saw a large school of what we believe are Bermuda chubs. It was pretty cool swimming with them all.
After snorkeling with the fish we swam on some more and found some conch to harvest. The limit is 6 in your boat and they have to be large enough to have a lip. We harvested 3. When we got back up to the boat we had to process them to get to the meat. You do this by cutting 3 notches up on the end of the shell and hammering a line of a hole about an inch and a half long. Then take your knife and cut along the inside of the hole until you release a muscle like piece from the shell and the conch. This will release the conch from the shell and you should be able to pull him out with his one claw. You then cut all of the colored stuff off including the claw. Cut a slit in the skin and filet off the colored skin as well, leaving a thick hamburger patty sized piece of white meat. The meat should be tenderized for everything but conch salad. You can do this by hammering the crud out of it. Quite fun actually. In the end it will look like shredded conch. We left ours a like less hammered, cut it into small strips, battered and fried it. They call this conch fritters. I call it deliciius. It was a lot like fried calamari. The meat has a sweetness to it.
Foul Cay started to get a little more wind so we motor sailed a short distance to Scotland Cay. We dropped anchor (also referred to as being on the hook), caught some wifi from the houses on shore and settled in for the night.