Captain Jerry Lewless

There is no more knowledgeable guide to the Exuma Cays than Capt. Jerry Lewless, a 5th generation Exumian, born in his grandfather’s house at The Ferry, Little Exuma in a bedroom dissected by the Tropic of Cancer. Capt. Jerry’s mother was the Shark Lady of Hogs Cay on Little Exuma, who caught sharks with a hand line. Her home still stands as a small museum. Capt. Jerry is an environmentalist. He reveres the sea life and fauna in the 365 unspoiled islands and cays in the Exumas chain where the amazing sea colors may be the prettiest in all of the 700 islands of the Bahamas. A trip with Capt. Jerry can be spiritual: two green turtles swim out and follow his boat, viewing a colony of starfish with an admonition from Capt. Jerry to look and not touch, through to the importance of mangroves to natural land preservation, and trees with cascarilla bark used to make Campari. And Wild Dilly also known as the Gum Tree with round fruit Capt. Jerry chewed as gum when he was a child. Or leaves from a tree that will treat poison ivy and anything else that ails you. Let Capt. Jerry know the number of adults and children because he does things like bury gold coins in the sandbar for young children to find. More