As mentioned in a previous post when we were in Nassau we visited the Pirate Museum which I really liked.
Yes. I know. The following pictures all suck.
But if I had just posted the following text everyone would have wanted more:
I measured the barrel. 55 inches.
They had breech loaded flintlocks in the early 1720’s!
And grenades!
Disney pays a lot of attention to detail. This is true of their parks as well as there ships and island. Every night when we were having dinner our bed was turned down and a towel folded in the shape of an animal was waiting for us on our bed:
The food tasted wonderful and was presented beautifully. Here is an example:
There were three swimming pools on board. One for kids, one for teenagers, and one for adults. This is the adult pool:
On the last day, even before we were were off the ship, they had the pools drained and were washing down the ship with cleaners.
In the evenings we saw a movie (Frozen) and a extraordinarily well produced play. The attention to detail in the props and production detail was amazing.
We spent most of last week on the Disney ship Magic in the Bahamas. I had been on Disney’s sister ship Wonder several years ago but this was Barb’s first cruise. As with me Barb had never had much interest in going on a cruise until after having actually been on one. Part way through the cruise Barb was talking about “the next cruise we go on”.
This was the entrance to the ship. Notice the resemblance to Mickey Mouse?
This was the going away party. There was loud music and some of the Disney crew were doing cheerleading. I found it an interesting psychological study.
After observing the party from an upper deck Barb and I found a little quieter spot and watched Port Canaveral fade away in the distance.
The next morning we arrived in Nassau. As we approached the harbor a pilot was brought out to our ship to guide us in.
Arrival of the pilot.
Departure of the pilot’s transportation.
This was the flag near the bow of our ship.
This is the harbor at Nassau as we arrived. Do you think maybe they have a lot of tourists?
The last time I was here a tour guide said the walkway between the buildings was a hotel room for rent—at $20,000/week IIRC.
We did a self guided walking tour through parts of Nassau and “fought” off the aggressive tour guide who really, really wanted to give us a tour in his limo. The most fun thing we did at Nassau was go through the Pirate Museum.
The next day we arrived at Disney’s island Castaway Cay.
The first thing we did was rent bicycles and go for a ride across the island.
This picture was taken from an observation tour on the far end of the island.
From the same observation tour.
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They claim the highest point on the island is less than 16’ above sea level. I can believe it.
We also fed the sting rays and went snorkeling with them. Barb thought they were “SO CUTE!” I thought they were a little ominous but it was fun to swim above them as they went “flying” through the water just above the bottom.
Most of the rest of the time we spent on the adult beach. It was very pleasant.
Someone had used shells to make an outline of something.
I’m not sure what the name of this bird is but it was pelican like. Taking pictures of it while we were on the beach gave me something to do.
I’m not sure if it was diving for fish or just making very ungraceful landings.
This was how it looked as we left the island.
The next day we spent the entire time cruising around in a circle. Then during the night we returned to port. We were off the ship and back to the airport by 9:00 or 10:00. I didn’t know how long it would take to get there when I made the airplane reservations and we were scheduled for something like a 6:00 PM departure. There were no seats available on an earlier flight so we waited in the airport. We flew to Houston and found out our connecting flight was something like five hours late. We didn’t leave Houston until after midnight. It was something like 2:00 AM Pacific time when we finally made it home and into bed. And, of course, we were fully adjusted to Eastern time. We were really, really tired.
The vacation was totally worth it. Much of the rest of the nation was enduring snow and bitter cold. And best of all I sent some of the bloggers who were discussing the cold an email sympathizing and included this picture from Nassau:
