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Regular snorkeling tours and fishing charters depart for Lady Musgrave Island, a coral cay known for its mix of coral reefs and pisonia forests.
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
This year brought the debut of the posh, eco-minded luxury Lovango Resort + Beach Club, where both overnight guests and day-pass visitors can indulge in beachfront food and drink service from the privacy of their very own cay.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2022
On Masig Island, a low-lying coral cay that’s home to some 270 people, the wind ripped down trees, and huge tidal surges flooded houses and an old cemetery.
—WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
What used to be a cay is now a spit of sand encircled by a coral reef.
—Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
To keep their staff when the season ended in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Little Gem Resorts opened Lovango Resort and Beach Club on a private cay in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
—Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
And rising sea levels and storm surges led to the recent extinction of a rodent species called Bramble Cay melomys, which lived on a remote cay in the northern Great Barrier Reef, the report said.
—Kristen Gelineau, ajc, 1 Mar. 2022
It’s another cay (which is essentially a tiny island).
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2022
Sandy Island is a small cay off Sandy Ground beach in Anguilla.
—Sandra Macgregor, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
This year brought the debut of the posh, eco-minded luxury Lovango Resort + Beach Club, where both overnight guests and day-pass visitors can indulge in beachfront food and drink service from the privacy of their very own cay.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2022
On Masig Island, a low-lying coral cay that’s home to some 270 people, the wind ripped down trees, and huge tidal surges flooded houses and an old cemetery.
—WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
What used to be a cay is now a spit of sand encircled by a coral reef.
—Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
To keep their staff when the season ended in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Little Gem Resorts opened Lovango Resort and Beach Club on a private cay in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
—Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
And rising sea levels and storm surges led to the recent extinction of a rodent species called Bramble Cay melomys, which lived on a remote cay in the northern Great Barrier Reef, the report said.
—Kristen Gelineau, ajc, 1 Mar. 2022
It’s another cay (which is essentially a tiny island).
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2022
Sandy Island is a small cay off Sandy Ground beach in Anguilla.
—Sandra Macgregor, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
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“Cay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cay. Accessed 26 Mar. 2023.
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