Blogs from Bahamas, Central America Caribbean - page 8
They also had a pirate night one night where I must say, the men really went to town dressing the part, and a "white" night, where everyone wore white. Was quite interesting to walk into a bar and every single person was is in white. Sort of stops you in your tracks and almost looks heavenly. The last night on board was really excellent - everyone dressed up, dinner suits the lot, with lots of hugs and Goodbyes and swapping emails. ... read more
DE STANIEL’S CAY, EXUMAS AUX BAHAMAS – UNE BONNE ET HEUREUSE ANNÉE 2011 À VOUS TOUS QUI NOUS ACCOMPAGNEZ VIRTUELLEMENT DANS NOTRE AVENTURE AUX BAHAMAS
Published: January 3rd 2011Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » ExumaÀ l’aube de cette nouvelle année 2011, nous débutons notre exploration des nombreuses îles des Exumas dans les Bahamas et espérons toujours goûter à la chaleur du sud. Au rendez-vous, plongé en apnée, cueillette de noix de coco, pêche à la langouste et aux conchs, promenade sur les plages et les traditionnels et agréables 5 à 7 de fin de journée en compagnie d’amis de navigation. Mercredi le 22 décembre : Serge a une grippe d’homme … pas drôle (ni pour lui, ni pour moi …). Aujourd’hui, nous nous improvisons touristes à Nassau. En avant-midi, visite du fameux Atlantic Beach Resort sur Paradise Island (en face de Nassau qui elle se situe sur Providence Island). Opulence, richesse, abondance. C’est grandiose, on se croirait à Las Vegas avec la mer en prime : casinos, boutiques de grandes ... read more
By 5.00 pm we'd left Nassau and set sail for Coco Cay, a private Island owned by the shipping line. The ship can't dock there so you catch a tender across to the Island, where they've also set up lunch and there's a very small market. When the ship leaves, everyone on the island leaves except the caretaker. I suppose the trouble is, I live in a country with really excellent beaches - this one was a stony beach with very shallow water for a very long way out, so shallow you can’t swim in it - so trying to walk into deep water its Ouch, Ouch, Ouch before you’re even waste deep. It was also dangerous as we saw a few stingrays in the shallows we were walking in – would have been so easy ... read more
The following day was New Year's Eve and we had a day at sea. This was the most relaxing day I had the entire time so I really enjoyed it, just getting my nose into a book and having some downtime. Finally the weather was warming up to be comfortable, so some sunbathing too. In the evening, it was the usual sunset drinking saga, only this time followed by everyone on the entire ship on deck just before midnight to celebrate New Years. This was a blacktie event so everyone got dressed up to the nines and looked great. Men in black tie are so suave. Must say was quite surprised the ship didn't lay on balloons or streamers or something for the passengers to see the New Year in. There was a rumour that there ... read more
The following day, our first port of call was Nassau, the Bahamas. I was still waking up at 4.00 in the morning, so actually saw sunrise and sailing into Nassau. I was expecting something exotic to be honest, even the name is exotic. However, it lacked the “Wow Factor” as its very poor one side of the river, and very rich the other side with some truly beautiful houses. The Town is small and quite dingy and everyone seems to live on subsistence. I'd booked a snorkelling tour off a catamaran in the morning which I thought would have been great underwater viewing – even that was disappointing as the sea bed was a dirty brown, hardly any corral worth mentioning, although there were some beautiful fish. Unfortunately, due to the weather still not being really ... read more
Junkanoo Nassau Bahamas
Published: December 28th 2010Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau » BahamasJunk Junk Junkanoo, Junk Junk Junkanoo.... This is the rhythm that bellows threw the streets of downtown Nassau as thousands of people gather to view an incredible array of floats, costumes and dancers surrounded by musicians blowing their trumpets and horns, clanging their bells and pounding their drums to the beat of joyful songs. You can’t help but join into the beat and sway side to side as if you were part of it all...because you ARE part of it all!!! This year, we were privileged to be in Nassau during this annual festival. Similar to Mardi Gras in the southern US and Brazil’s festival in Rio de Janeiro, this is the mark of the Bahamas and what a colourful one it is indeed. We were mesmerised by the beauty of their costumes and hypnotised by ... read more
DE NASSAU BAHAMAS - JOYEUX NOËL À NOS FAMILLES ET AMIS
Published: December 22nd 2010Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau » BahamasC’est la période des fêtes et nous sommes quelque peu nostalgiques … Les Fêtes sans nos familles ce n’est pas pareil. À quelques jours de Noël seulement, nous ne sentons pas l’ambiance des fêtes autour de nous … Un petit épisode de déprime … mais le soleil et la chaleur des Bahamas devraient suffirent à nous remonter le moral ! Lundi le 13 décembre : Il fait très froid aujourd’hui à Bimini. Les locaux ont sorti foulards, tuques, gants et manteaux d’hiver (pour ceux qui en ont). Le vent force toujours à 30 35 nœuds. C’est une bonne chose que nous soyons à l’abri dans la marina (située du côté est de l’île). Nous nous sommes rendus sur la plage (côté ouest de l’île) et les vagues sont gigantesques. Le vent soulève le sable sur la ... read more
De la Floride au Bahamas
Published: December 21st 2010Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Bimini IslandsDe la Floride au Bahamas Nous avons passé jours a st-Augustin (FL). Très belle ville d'architecture espagnole. C'est a voire si vous passé dans le coin. Toutes les décorations de noël sans neige c'est bizarre. Nous avons aussi passé 3 jours à Vero Beach (FL) sur un mooring à trois bateaux de large. Nous avons commencé à préparer le bateau pour la traversé et le remplissage de vive pour quatre mois. Nous avons eu un contact pour un quai a 20 $ / jours a Fort Lauderdale. Nous y avons passé un autre 10 jours de préparation. Une journée de congé à la plage nous a permis de nager avec des lamantins. Wow. Nous avons pris des photos mais un peut brouillées. Les enfants ont bien aimé mais Jade a eu un peu peur. La traversé ... read more
About Time Holiday Greetings
Published: December 14th 2010Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Grand Bahama » FreeportGreetings Everyone from Port Lucaya Bahamas! We're back on the boat and looking forward to another great season of warm weather, great sailing, and friends! This year we left Guelph at the end of October, visited our friends Mary and Christian in St.Marys Georgia, and arrived at the boat in Port Canaveral October 26th. We decided to keep the boat further south last summer, and tried a convenient boatyard on Merrit Island just inside the lock at Port Canaveral. The boat yard Harbortown Marina is very conveniently located, and we were very pleased with the facility, and how well our boat rested there during the summer. It took a couple of days to get our boat ready to be launched, and we stayed at a nice Best Western out on the Beach at Cocoa Beach until ... read more
TRAVERSÉE DU GOLF STREAM - ENFIN LES BAHAMAS !!!
Published: December 13th 2010Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Bimini IslandsNous sommes enfin arrivés aux Bahamas après un long (très long) trajet depuis le lac Champlain. Nous sommes fiers de notre exploit et avons bien l’intention de profiter pleinement de notre séjour aux Bahamas. Vendredi le 10 décembre : Hollywood Beach, Floride. Surprise, ce matin les toilettes sont bloquées … et dieu sait que ce n’est pas ce qu’il y a de plus plaisant à réparer … C’est vraiment le cas de le dire, on a les mains dans la merde … Il faudra réparer cela avant de partir et faire un bon ménage pour désinfecter partout … du « déjà vu » (Loulou et Jean-Jean s’en souviendront …). Nous avions prévu quitter vers 10h00, on retarde le départ (nettoyage oblige …) et on quitte la marina de Hollywood vers 11h30 en direction de Biscayne Keys ... read more







































