CAPT. MIKE IN THE EXUMAS DAY NINE: CAMP DRIFTWOOD

In the morning we took the dingy up a scenic creek at the north end of Shroud Cay:

It was a pleasant ride up the mangrove lined waterway:

Evans W. Cottman wrote about riding out a Hurricane here in his book Out-island Doctor.

After about twenty minutes we came a nice little beach and landed the dingy:

After a short hike up a steep path that was created originally by a recluse sailor named Ernest Scholtes back in the 1960's. When drug trafficker Carlos Lehder and his associates set up their drug transport operations on nearby Norman's Cay. The DEA setup a sophisticated camera at Camp Driftwood  to keep an eye on the comings and goings of Lehder's operation. When we got up to Camp Driftwood the sign that told of it's history had been removed or perhaps blown away by Hurricane Irene which passed through the area last year:

But, other signs of previous visits by people still remain:

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