{"id":17483,"date":"2013-12-04T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=17483"},"modified":"2021-02-23T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:35:32","slug":"look-what-the-cat-island-dragged-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/look-what-the-cat-island-dragged-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Look What The Cat Island Dragged In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Since we returned home from our vacation to Cat Island Bahamas<\/strong><\/a>, it’s taken us a over week to recover, clean our shells, experience our SanCap outrageous shelling<\/strong><\/a>, and enjoy our holiday. As you can see by the first photo, yes, it was aaaamazing!!! So now I  can continue to tell you how awesome our trip was and give you details as promised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We started off by driving to Fort Lauderdale airport to catch a flight on BahamasAir to Nassau. Long story short\u2026. The flight was delayed and we missed our connection from Nassau to Cat Island on SkyBahamas so BahamasAir put us up in Nassau for the night (nice, right?). We had a blast in Nassau!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We finally made it onto SkyBahamas the next day so I took a selfie…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A day late\u2026 but we made it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Okay before I go any further, I’m going to show you a dinner place mat made from a beautiful map of the Cat Island. It’s from a gorgeous resort called Fernandez Bay Villages<\/strong><\/a> where we hung out, had drinks, lunch and got great shelling tips from the locals and the staff. I embellished their map with arrows of where we found our best shells and beach bling. Now you can see how far we traveled and explored… From tip to tip of the island and all in between! We shelled just about all of the other beaches too but I narrowed it down for you to the best of the best areas we found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ask the folks at Fernandez Bay Villages to let you read the shelling review book called “Cat Island Beachwalks” that one of their guests wrote. The detail on shelling holes is amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We stayed at Island Hoppinn<\/strong><\/a> (the area of the MILK CONCHS) which is a very small bed and breakfast type place (without the breakfast) which has an outside common area where we spent our mornings with John and Jane planning our days’ adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On our first day, the owner Cathleen and her sweet daughter Alyssa took us to Flamingo Point on the North Shore where we found lots of green, aqua, amber, brown, a few chips of cobalt and one nice chunk of lavender SEA GLASS<\/strong><\/a>. Yay! Check out my last Cat Island post<\/strong><\/a> to see the SEA GLASS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We rented a Jeep<\/strong> <\/a>for the rest of the week (which I highly recommend) if you are explorers like us- you just never know where you will end up. On the southwest point of Cat Island sits a cool little resort and marina called Hawk’s Nest Resort<\/strong> <\/a>where we met another awesome sheller \u2026 JR.  She gave us a few pointers on where to find these fabulous SEA BISCUITS (oops!\u2026 I put a “q” in BISCUITS on the map- heehee) and she was a wealth of information on the different shells she has found and the island in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After finding Hawk’s Nest Marina, John decided to go fishing with JR’s husband Randy and we were soooo happy he did. They brought back 200 pounds of Wahoo! Yahooo for Wahoo! John brought a few of those fresh fillets back to our place and Clark grilled them up for dinner one night. YUM!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now don’t get too freaked out \u2026 but I took a video of some very hungry REEF SHARKS having their own dinner. When you live on a small island, what do you do with the fish guts? You toss them back in the water and let the CRABS, RAYS and other fish eat them. But this day, the SHARKS were having a feast. Yikes! It was thrilling and very scary all at the same time and even seeing it on video again- it’s so crazy! So again, don’t get freaked out and try to  keep your toes out of the water…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wild, huh? But let’s get back to OUR yummy dinners\u2026 we had the best night at Da Smoke Pot restaurant with owners Rene, Julian and their son J’von.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"J'Von<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We found out Rene is craaaazy about shelling! She loves to talk about shelling and she even keeps some of her favorite shells behind the bar. See why we loved this place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh\u2026 And if you go, ask Julian about the Rake ‘N Scrape. He’ll teach you how to play the saw like we did. hahaha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had another fantastic meal from Terry as he prepared fresh CRACKED CONCH right in front of us from his little stand on the side of the road near Orange Creek. It was deeeelicious and so much fun to just happen upon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have to tell you about another fab dinner we had too\u2026. spiny lobster. We bought 4 tails from the local grocery and chef Clark grilled ’em up. OMG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, most of the island is very undeveloped so if you want a vacation with lots of shopping\u2026 this isn’t the place for you. But if you like to shop, Emily’s is the place to buy your straw goods. It was a pleasure to meet Emily and to buy one of her beautiful straw hats to cover up while on the beach shelling all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cat Island is such a beautiful, raw piece of paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The locals use their few resources to live a fun filled…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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colorful…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"cat<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

salty life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We found many treasures to make us very happy but we are still sorting so I still hope to give you another post with shell details and IDs in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"clark<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So until then, I hope I’ve given you answers to most of the questions you asked on my other 2 posts about our amazing adventure. The shelling was exshellent, the food was delicious, the scenery was heaven and the locals were gracious and kind. Cat Island is a true island paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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