Little San Salvador, Half Moon (West) Bay – Privately owned, this island is a theme park for Cruise Ships

In very light winds we are still managing to slowly make our way North.

We left the lovely long beach of Pigeon Cay, Cat Island, for the Little San Salvador. The slow downwind sailing was ‘steaming’ hot.  It even hurt to walk on the painted decks.  We were thankful when a tiny bit of cloud cover offered a reprieve as we entered the Bay at Little San Salvador. Little San Salvador is privately owned by a consortium of cruise liners.  They have renamed the bay Half Moon Bay and transformed it into a Caribbean Adventure Park for passengers.  We ran into one of their passengers in the US Virgin Islands.  He said his Cruise Ship anchored here, were they were offered a variety of water sports, pirate shows and other forms of entertainment for the day. The far west side of the bay is the least developed and recommended as the anchorage for visiting boats.

There were no Cruise Ships visiting the island when we stopped here. Part of me is glad to have the beach to myself…. But there is also a part of me that would have loved to see the ‘mayhem’ that thousands of passengers would make in this bay.

It is ‘private property’ so we did not have a ‘nose’ in land or at any of the amusement park at the other end of the bay.  There are custodians staying on the island that would not appreciate the trespassing.  We tried to be polite and stay ‘basically’ to the public ‘tide line’ rule.

Without the ‘hordes’ it is a peaceful stop over on the way north to the island of Eleuthera.

If we had not headed off the next day we would have been witness to what a cruise ship does to the place.