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Southeast Point, Mayaguana, Southern Bahamas

The chart and following text are from The Southern Bahamas Guide by Stephen J. Pavlidis

Many cruisers on their way to Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos, leave Abraham’s Bay and anchor in the lee of Southeast Point for a few hours to make a nighttime departure for Provo that is a bit shorter with a better angle on the prevailing winds.  

Navigational Information
A waypoint at 22º 16.70’ N, 72º 48.40’ W, as shown on Chart MG-4, will place you approximately 1 mile west/southwest of the anchorage area.  Anchor off the beach in the shelter of the reef and you will be fairly comfortable in light to moderate northeast to east winds.  Strong east winds make this an uneasy anchorage.  Winds and/or seas out of the southeast may make this anchorage anywhere from uncomfortable to downright untenable.  If you anchor here awaiting your departure for Provo you might wish to explore the wreck of the sailboat Amie which lies on a beach about 2 miles northwest of Southeast Point.  I have seen pink flamingos wading in the shallows that dry about a mile northwest of the wreck.

To the east of the main island of Mayaguana lies Booby Cay.  Booby Cay, besides being a home to brown boobies, is also home to a colony of small rock iguanas.  These are the same iguanas that are found 50 miles to the southeast at Little Water Cay northeast of Provo.  There is a small anchorage just inside the reef between Mayaguana and Booby Cay offering little save some shelter from westerly winds.  The entrance through the reef is narrow and hard to find, if you intend to enter this anchorage I suggest you ask a local guide for assistance, perhaps Stafford Bain Jr. at Pirate’s Well.

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