On October 21st Marsha and I took a five day trip to the Bahamas. She won an OLYMPUS camera sales contest and the reward was an expense paid cruise on the CARNIVAL "Ecstasy". She felt sorry for me so she took me along. I took my GPS receiver just in case the captain got lost! Below is the route taken.
Most of us on the west coast don't understand the geography of the east so the map keeps things in perspective. Nassua is about 175 miles from Miami as the Sea Gull flys. The route of the "Ecstasy" is shown in red. If your interested; learn more about the ship.
Besides downtown Nassua, we went
to a small island
located about 4 miles northwest of
Paradise island called "Blue Lagoon". It was a nice
place to enjoy the white sand beach, lay in the sun and snorkel.
They filmed Gilligan's island here. Sting Ray City is nearby but
was closed because of the recent hurricane damage. It would have
been nice to swim with the rays but we at least did some
snorkeling in the warm water. This island is a training
site for Dolphins For $110 you can swim with them and
let them carry you across the pool but it was too steep ($) for
my blood.
Our impressions of the Bahamas were
very favorable. We hope to return someday to take greater
advantage of the water sports and investigate the old pirate
legends that are common in the area. The Bahamas are becoming
very commercialized with modern resorts such as Disney's Atlantis.
Too bad because it's a lovely place. What I really enjoyed was
the steel drum music such as those to the left. Bands were common
in town and aboard ship.
The
new "Disney" cruise ship comes into port at least once
a week.
We would have taken more pictures
but we were having camera problems.
Last revised: April 08, 2000.