Thunderball Grotto

We fired up The Chuggernaut (our dinghy) bright and early this morning for the 20 minute ride to Thunderball Grotto. The movie, Thurnderball, was filmed in the Bahamas and the grotto is featured in the scene where James Bond is lifted by helicopter through a small hole in the top of the cave. We timed our arrival for slack low tide. We wanted to be able to enter the cave without going under water and we didn't want to be swept about by a strong current. It is hard to figure the tides out in the Bahamas but we were lucky and arrived at just the right time. The grotto was really cool. A short, narrow cave opens up into a "room" with a domed top. We could see the hole through which James Bond was lifted. It isn't all that big. I saw a small rat crawling on a ledge, eewww, so we decided to leave before it decided to join us in the water. We exited through a different cave and returned to the dinghy before the current came up. We both enjoyed the experience. Also, my new way of ge
tting back into the dinghy worked just fine. Sorry, no photos of the grotto. We don't have an underwater camera and I forgot to bring my iPhone to take photos of the outside.
By the way, our daughter is a librarian and bought the used Thunderball DVD at her Friends of the Library bookshop. Neither one of us remembered that Thunderball was filmed in the Bahamas, but we were so happy to have the DVD and be able to watch it before we visited the grotto. Thanks, Pam!