Blogs from Half Moon Cay, Bahamas, Central America Caribbean
Winter 2010 - Island Hopping North to the Abacos
Published: September 30th 2010Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Half Moon Cay
September 30th 2010
“Winter 2010 - Island Hopping North to the Abacos” We are a bit late with this addition of the blog. My apologies. We left Georgetown on March 14th after a very successful Regatta in Georgetown. A predicted NW breeze at 15-20 knots gave us a beam reach from the Ocean Cut at the South end of Exuma Sound to the North end of Long Island called Cape Santa Maria. This famous cape is one of many landfalls made by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the new world. From this landfall we jibed and reached down the West side of the island until we arrived our favorite harbor of Thompson Bay. We were soon joined by at least 20 other boats that left Georgetown that morning. Some were staging for trips to the remote Jumentos ... read more
A little slice of paradise
Published: March 1st 2010Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Half Moon Cay
October 29th 2009
(2nd stop on the cruise) We tendered from the cruise ship to the private island owned by Carnival Cruiselines; Half Moon Cay. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say we could have stayed on this island for a couple of days. There was nothing there but beach, a bar, beach, some hammocks for rent, and did I mention beach?! We walked along the long strip of pristine white sand, climbed over rugged rock and laid our towels down on our own private cove. It was such a relaxing, peaceful day! ... read more
Half Moon Cay with Mel & Jess . . .
Published: May 15th 2009Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Half Moon Cay
May 6th 2009
Mel and Jess are here cruising with me and today we had a fantastic beach day! Today’s port of call was Half Moon Cay, a private island owned by one of our sister lines. Though we come here every two weeks, I’ve only gotten off on the island once! It’s a tender port and of course, guests come first, so us crew members have to go back 3 hours before sail time. When I don’t finish work until at least 1am the night before, it’s difficult to drag myself out of bed early enough to make the day worth going out and coming back by 1pm - and then still have the energy to work the rest of the day and night. But rules like that get loosened when you have family cruising - thankfully! - ... read more
Seeing Half Moon Cay . . .
Published: May 2nd 2009Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Half Moon Cay
March 11th 2009
Half Moon Cay is a private cay in the Bahamas owned by Holland America Line (part of the Carnival Corporation). Last spring when I was on the Liberty, during one of my last cruises, we changed itineraries to go to Half Moon Cay. But because it’s a tender port and everything on land is run by crew from the ship, it was a hectic day and unless you were working crew, you couldn’t get off the ship. So I’d only ever seen Half Moon Cay from the ship looking ashore. Today we were in port there. My current schedule of activities was set by the director who I’ve replaced here. And this afternoon I was scheduled to run activities on the island for the teens. So I took the tender boat ashore with my bags fulls ... read more
June 1st 2008
Two weeks ago, when we had our charter cruise, the Liberty relocated our home port from Fort Lauderdale to Miami. Along with the relocation, the ship has made an itinerary change. We now rotate between two seven day runs - one in the Eastern Caribbean and one in the Western. With my contract extension, I get to have one cruise of each of the new itineraries, a nice little treat right at the end of my contract. The new Eastern run takes us to St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, Grand Turk and a new one for me: Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. Half Moon Cay (also known as Little San Salvador Island), is a private island owned by Holland America, one of Carnival Corporations' lines. It's southeast of Nassau and only partially developed. You have to tender ashore ... read more
June 15th 2006
The Carnival Cruise line owns a few private islands. We went to the Half Moon Cay Island. At times, I wondered what would happen if the ship actually really got stranded on this island. There where actually wild chickens on this island. Maybe someone brought the chickens from the mainland just in case we got stranded.... read more
