The Bahamas.... one more time!

Not much new to blog about.  I guess when the most exciting picture I have is a seagull making a dive-bombing attach on a  guest eating breakfast outside on the aft deck….. well that about says it all!

This is our Medical outpost so to speak on Great Stirrup Cay! (GSC)  Not bad especially when you compare it with the "Hut" that they tell me used to serve the purpose ... until it blew away in a storm!  Now everyone's comment is the same when they walk in, "Hey! you've got air conditioning!"

I snorkeled out around the rock the   last time I was there.  Not much to see,   but at least  I got wet!

Some of you have ask about how the passengers get over to the private island (GSC).  The ship anchors about a mile off shore and there are a series of tenders that transport the passengers as well as the staff and the food for a thousand ( +or- ) meals from the ship to the Island and then hauls it all back at the end of the day! 

Tender along side the SKY

07:30 in the morning , the tender is loaded  with the days rations1

  The are a group of people who live on the island in dorms that NCL maintains. They lifeguard, they run the small local “Straw market”, rent the floats and do a lot of the maintenance on the island.  They are working on domesticating a school of stingrays so that patrons can get the experience of swimming with and feeding the rays,  without getting stung!  So far they haven't had much luck making good "Brits''out of them!  They  won't Q-up to be fed they just go into a feeding frenzy and the handlers get covered with "hickies" from their over-anxious charges!

Tomorrow (June 14) I sign off the ship in Nassau and fly to Boston and sign on the NCL Dawn.  And start making the Boston to Bermuda trip.  Hopefully there will be some more interesting things to blog about.     

     ‘till then Happy sailing!