urc12 Posted October 5, 2015 #1 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I was wondering if anyone has heard any storm damage reports from Coco Cay? I believe that it is on the southern tip of Eleuthra and that the island was hit particularly hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.C05 Posted October 5, 2015 #2 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I am wondering the same thing. We're going this coming up Friday so I can report back if you'd like..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted October 5, 2015 #3 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I was wondering if anyone has heard any storm damage reports from Coco Cay? I believe that it is on the southern tip of Eleuthra and that the island was hit particularly hard. Coco Cay is at the northern end of the Berry Islands, maybe 150 mi northwest of Eleuthra. I've not heard any reports about Coco Cay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urc12 Posted October 5, 2015 Author #4 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Coco Cay is at the northern end of the Berry Islands, maybe 150 mi northwest of Eleuthra. I've not heard any reports about Coco Cay. Thank you. I don't know why I thought it was Eleuthra. Maybe I got it confused with Princess Cay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royal2464 Posted October 5, 2015 #5 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I'm aboard the Freedom and we have skipped Coco Cay due to high swells preventing tendering. So no first hand reports will be available today. To my knowledge no announcements were made to expect damage of any kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted October 5, 2015 #6 Share Posted October 5, 2015 (edited) Thank you. I don't know why I thought it was Eleuthra. Maybe I got it confused with Princess Cay. I'm just hoping that Coco Cay was farther away from the most damaging winds and rain. We will find out soon with Enchantment due there tomorrow. Edited October 5, 2015 by clarea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EatonDoolittle Posted October 5, 2015 #7 Share Posted October 5, 2015 My daily news feed from caribjournal.com listed the areas hardest hit, and updates on recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcieyes Posted October 5, 2015 #8 Share Posted October 5, 2015 HI CoCo Cay is in the Berry Islands about 15 minutes north of Nassau by plane. I have friends on an adjacent island Great Harbour cay. They seemed to be ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted October 5, 2015 #9 Share Posted October 5, 2015 HI CoCo Cay is in the Berry Islands about 15 minutes north of Nassau by plane. I have friends on an adjacent island Great Harbour cay. They seemed to be ok. Good to hear. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcieyes Posted October 5, 2015 #10 Share Posted October 5, 2015 One of the islands that was most affected was San Salvador, where Club Med Columbus Isle was. The island is severely damaged. Club Med is basically gone. This is horrifying because their freshwater aquifer is gone and Club Med had a desalination plant running, providing the whole village there with potable water. The airport is non functional, but American airlines hopes to get it functional by about October 18... maybe. Long and Crooked islands, nearly obliterated. If you remember that is the location near Crooked Island, where the container ship El Faro when down in the middle of the level four hurricane just a few days ago. We are from Florida and are all hoping, but today they told everyone the ship must have sunk, and they don't hold out much hope for any survivors, awful. There were 33 crew onboard. Bless the hurricane hunters, they flew those planes at very low altitude into the hurricane to try desperately to find the poor crew, but could not see anything. Rum and Ragged Cay, also almost obliterated. Acklins Islands severely affected. Our friends sent us heartbreaking you tube of Bahamas recon helicopters flying over area of the villages, maybe one home standing, badly damaged and everything else flooded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted October 5, 2015 #11 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Yes...Princess Cays is on Eleuthera . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie51 Posted October 5, 2015 #12 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Thank you for the replies. I knew about the cargo ship, but I didn't know how badly the islands were affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karena1 Posted October 5, 2015 #13 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I am wondering the same thing. We're going this coming up Friday so I can report back if you'd like..... We are also cruising Friday-on Majesty. Hoping we get into CocoCay b/c last year when our friends went with us we did not get in and they were so disappointed, they loved it there. We go enough if we have to miss once in a while we can live with it (although I do love it there) but they only go once in a while. So hopefully it will be a nice, sunny, calm weekend.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquahound Posted October 5, 2015 #14 Share Posted October 5, 2015 (edited) One of the islands that was most affected was San Salvador, where Club Med Columbus Isle was. The island is severely damaged. Club Med is basically gone. I think what you heard might have been exaggerated. The last report I read from Club Med themselves says they did not incur any significant structural damage. They were scheduled to re-open this month, but the re-opening was delayed until December due to minor damage from Joaquin. http://www.clubmedta.com/weather Edited October 5, 2015 by Aquahound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcieyes Posted October 6, 2015 #15 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Very interesting! I think that Club Med is running on hope... although they did have a maintenance crew on the ground when it was happening. There is not much left except the power plant. Now that the water is receding we got more photos, there are some parts of a few buildings left, but they were underwater for several days, there is no roof structure left anywhere at all on the few partial buildings. We don't see anything else standing, in that vicinity. I hope for everyone on that island (all the locals) that they can reconstruct in a month. The US Coast Guard is sending cutters packed with supplied to the area, some are almost there now. One of the local private pilots that flies to great Harbor Cay from Ft. Lauderdale is on constant supply missions dropping to Long and Cooked Islands since Sunday. It is so very sad... we live in Orlando and look at that and say: it could have been us instead. I can't imaging cargo ships trying to navigate near and the debris in the sea right now, to get all the building materials they will need into Club Med property, and the airport is not open to commercial from the damage. A deserted freighter washed up on Crooked Island! Unfortunately it was not the one they are still looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcieyes Posted October 6, 2015 #16 Share Posted October 6, 2015 HI, club med On San Salvador has pushed back the reopening until Dec 20th, 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pellaz Posted October 9, 2015 #17 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Any reports about damage to Half Moon Cay/Little San Salvador? It is just east of the southern tip of Eluethera, so it's closer to the hurricane than CocoCay (Little Stirrup Cay). I was trying to track the storm using latitude and longitude as it passed through the area and it seemed as if HMC was spared anything beyond strong tropical-storm force winds, but we're due there next week.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choozin Croozin Posted October 12, 2015 #18 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Any updated info on Coco Cay will be appreciated. We are due there in a few weeks. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karenlee67 Posted October 13, 2015 #19 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I am also going on Friday on Royal Caribbean and was hoping Coco Cay is ok to stop at....and wondering what the weather is like, it doesn't look good on the weather report! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.C05 Posted October 13, 2015 #20 Share Posted October 13, 2015 (edited) I was just there on Saturday, October 11th, and there is not any noticeable damage to Coco Cay. Looks like it was untouched from the hurricane. Edited October 13, 2015 by Mrs.C05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choozin Croozin Posted October 14, 2015 #21 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I was just there on Saturday, October 11th, and there is not any noticeable damage to Coco Cay. Looks like it was untouched from the hurricane. That's great news. Thank you! Now all I have to hope for is that it is not to rough to tender.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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