feet above mean sea level. The shoreline is straight, smooth, and 

 dips gently seaward. 



The country rock, as at the other sites, continues out into the 

 lagoon to the barrier reef and is covered with unconsolidated sand 

 ranging in thickness from 1.5 feet nearshore to 5 feet at 1 mile 

 offshore. 



The entire lagoon bottom along the survey track consists of a 

 clean, ripple-marked calcareous sand (Plate 17). Scattered 

 throughout the lagoon are irregularly shaped patch reefs (heads) 

 ranging from a few feet to 300 feet across and, in many instances, 

 awash at low tide. The contact between sand and heads is sharply 

 defined and the change in relief is abrupt. The patch reefs 

 support a striking variety of sedentary and free-swimming 

 organisms. 



At Buoy 10 (1.6 miles from shore) a dense growth of grass 

 appears which gradually transcends seaward into corals and other 

 organisms (Plate 18). Buoy 10 is at the approximate location of 

 the barrier reef. The reef is not well -developed along this track, 

 and no distinct change in bathymetry marks its boundaries. Seaward 

 of Buoy 10 dense coral growth dominates, and assumes the same 

 pattern as at Golding Cay, e.g., isolated heads and sand areas. 

 This pattern continues to the rim escarpment. 



HIGH POINT CAY (SITE 7) 



High Point Cay is the southernmost site studied and is a small 

 cay located approximately 700 yards east of Andros Island and 50 

 miles south of Site 1 at Fresh Creek. The cay is 1,700 yards 

 long, 300 yards wide and reaches an elevation of 50 feet on the 

 eastern end (Figure 10) . 



The survey commenced at latitude 23''54'01"N. , and longitude 

 77*'29'20"W., on the north shore of the eastern end of the cay. 



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