I’ve also been collecting historical Rum Cay pictures on the web and receiving photographs that are emailed to me and adding them to a new photo gallery called: http://www.rumcayhistory.com/ with the help of Frazier Nivens, an ocean imaging/underwater photographer from the early days of Rum Cay who has a collection of images of Rum Cay, his website can be found at Oceanimaging.com, and Billy Davis who also has a collection of images from the island’s history. RumCayHistory.com will be a compilation of photographs from Rum Cay including a section dedicated to the H.M.S. Conqueror, a 101-gun Conqueror class screw propelled first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. The H.M.S. Conqueror was launched in 1855, but spent only six years in service before being wrecked in 1861. The wreck lies in 30 feet of water off Rum Cay and is preserved as an Underwater Museum of the Bahamas. It is a popular dive site.
I recently received a video of Rum Cay’s North Shore created by Fabiana Rota. There is a tract of land in the North Central Coast named Lord which will be the future home of villas on Rum Cay. Thanks for the video, Billy. If anyone has any updates, pictures of videos of the island, please email them to rob@rumcaygreen.com and I’ll post them on our website!
I was browsing through Billy Davis’ Gallery the other day and was trying to visualize the scenery of Rum Cay where the photos were taken. The beaches must have taken his breath away, the natural, serene town and surroundings with the ocean waves in the background would have been calming, while the soft, bahamian breeze cooled him as it blew by. I thought to myself that his photographs are amazing but the view and the experience of the secluded island, one of the few left in the world, are moments to remember. I created these two Rum Cay videos with the photographs from Billy’s Gallery to try and capture the experience of being ON Rum Cay rather than just looking at pictures. I hope these videos delight and please leave comments if you enjoyed them!
