Exuma Land & Sea Park, January 23, 2022

It was my bright idea that I wanted to see the Davis Ruins on the Island and that would be a good activity since it was cloudy, and it would be a nice cool hike.  So, off we went.  We found the trail and started off.  Well, it was so poorly marked, I swear the rangers have a camera on their office and simply laugh as tourists get lost wandering around in circles.  Is it clear yet that yes, we were lost again? 

 We made it to the top of the hill and the bonus was – we have three bars of internet!  Sweet!  Aw least we know where we can get it!  Not to mention it was gorgeous!  Now blazingly sunny, we continued our wandering looking for the ruins, we found a “wall.”  I am using this term loosely.

Wonder what the sign says?   Probally something about death

In the Bahamas Ruins typically mean a pile of rocks.

The views from the top however are always worth it.

We were unsure if this was the ruins?  Are we here?  There was no sign, no trail marker, nothing.  Then of course, we see the ruins…on the top of the hill next to us.  Whoops.  We attempt to make our way over to the ruins via a “path” (also a term I use loosely).  As we made our way through poisonwood forest…again, we finally made it over to the ruins.  Yes, there was a sign.

This is considered a marked trail.  Notice the poison wood everywhere

Now the fun begins, we must go back…through the forest and how did we get here?  Ugh.  Since we finally made it back to the beach and neither of us had poisonwood yet, we found another hike. 

On a neighboring beach, we tried the Palmetto Forest and after nearly poking my eye out (close save), we did that one and Sahara Dessert hikes which ironically looked exactly the same…minus the eye issue.  If we leave the park without poisonwood, it will be a miracle. 

Ater our afternoon of “fun” Ron made me homemade pizza and we did a sunset hike up BooBoo Hill to pray to the Internet Gods with minimal success.

Stretch tall, turn south and bam you have 1 bar of cellular