Spear Fishing At Rose Island

I was supposed to go spear fishing with my friend Stephanie off Cabbage Beach on Sunday. However, Stephanie was invited by her friend Carla to go to a privately-owned island off Nassau for some spear fishing. Stephanie invited me to come along. Carla just bought a new twin-hulled catamaran with twin outboards. Carla picked Stephanie and I from the dock in front of the world famous Poop Deck Restaurant on East Bay Street.

As we blew out of Nassau Harbour, I snapped a pic of a sloop running the main sail and a spinnaker.

Spear fishing from a reef opposite a cay near Rose Island, I bagged a trigger fish and Carla got some conch.

Stephanie comes back to the boat. We were time constrained because it gets dark around 6:00 PM now, and Carla had to run Stephanie and I back to Nassau, and she wasn't comfortable doing it in the dark.

Below, Carla stores some gear as we prepare to get underway back to Rose Island to cook up the fish.

We cooked up the seafood, along with some shrimp, rice vermicelli, carrot shavings, mint, crushed macadamia nuts and spinach leaves and rolled them into Thai rice paper rolls and had a delicious lunch back on Rose Island.

The sun was setting after a superb day in the tropics.

Sailboats are anchored for evening, and their owners will spend the night rocking with the swells in their berths.

The doggies rode up front most of the way, sniffing the breeze as we winged our way back to Nassau.
This was probably one of the best December 6ths that I have spent in my life. Normally up north it would be cold and snowy and bleak. This is one of the big positives of living in the tropics.

Here is a youtube video of spearfishing in the Bahamas (Staniel Cay in the Exumas)