adventures in cruising - day two - nassau

Sunday morning we arrived in Nassau and Brian and I headed off in the direction of the Pirate Museum. We had never been to the Bahamas and I must say that we weren't impressed with the dock area. Downtown Nassau was dirty and unkempt, and the locals were relentless! Before B and I could even leave the dock area, some lady had bracelets around our wrists that she said were "free" - but then she wanted a tip! Ugh! We found out later that J&A went to the other end of the island and it was beautiful, so I guess just the downtown was yucky.

Anyway, we had a blast at the Pirate Museum. This pirate-dressed guy let us in and it was cold and dark and damp and we were alone - it was kinda scary! I said to Brian, "What have we gotten ourselves into?" There was no one else around! But as we wound our way through, we ran into other visitors and I felt better. We got on a pirate ship replica that was inside the building and it was way cool!Then we grabbed a taxi and headed to Paradise Island to sun ourselves on Cabbage Beach. It was a nice beach even though it was crowded. The water was FREEZING, which rather surprised us! But we had gorgeous weather and we enjoyed the beach. We met J&A for snacks and drinks right before we had to be back on the boat. We only had about 4.5 hours on the island, but it was a good time.

















That night was formal night so we got all dressed up for dinner. Afterward, we explored the ship some more and boogied at the disco. (I know B & I look sunburned in this picture, but it was just the lighting. We didn't get burnt at all and we were so happy about that!)
The following pictures were taken as we sailed away from Nassau: