http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Bahamas , Nassau en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:30:42 +0000 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:30:42 +0000 With my blogs I aim to capture out of the ordinary experiences travel off the beaten path provide insight to local culture and highlight alternative perspectives. From a worldly cultured standpoint the epitome of a conventional predictable and an uninspiring escapade would be to take a cruise. However I am sure that if you stumbled across a four night cruise to the Bahamas for less than http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-786650.html 17513 Nassau BahamasAvast there me hearties Up fed and out Nassau awaits the proper pirate stronghold home of Blackbeard and other fearsome and fascinating buccaneers of the high seas. Arrrr Jim lad this be the place I wants to see.First though we had to get off walk the plank I mean along the pier go through the welcome centre run the gauntlets of taxi touts hair braiding ladies to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-786542.html Well the other two boats True North and Bucket List left on Sunday but we werent quite ready and thought we would be able to leave today. Wrong. The winds were a bit brisk overnight and continued all day finally dropping off this evening. If things look good and our forecaster gives the OK well take off tomorrow for Shroud Cay in the Exuma island chain. Our forecaster is Chris Parker http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-775482.html We really hated to leave Bimini Bay Marina. Perhaps if we were down at one of the marinas in Alice Town without all the amenities and incredible staff we would have left sooner But we lingered and got to meet a few other boaters including Marty and Hernan aboard Oceanaire. One evening last week we accepted an offer of drinks aboard Oceaniare. Gil and Martine aboard a motor yacht nearby soon jo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-775144.html My decision to go to The Bahamas came up in a strange way. It all started when I met a friend of my sisters at her wedding last summer. Being friendly and exotic that was enough for me to keep in touch. Being friends from St. Johns University for 4 years I felt comfortable enough to pursue a friendship with a friend of my dear sister. After learning that my roommate a Delta employee had ext http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-764803.html Nous avons quitter Bimini vers 10hrs du matin avec l39quipage de Magie. Nous avons fait une trs belle traverse la voile vers Nassau d39une dure de 24 heures.Ds notre sortie de Bimini les 2 lignes taient l39eau pour attraper le poisson tant rver de Sbastien la Dorade ou on dit aussi le MahiMahi. Le premier poisson que nous avons attraper tait le Mutton Snapper. N http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-756790.html day 43Last day at PMH. said bye to all our colleagues. amelia got emotional sayin bye to mcsweeney. Went downtown shopping. The day loz and nat turned into bahamians. tantastic. loz chased a lizard round the apartment.day 44Loz and nat went beach. Adrian knocked on for us nat answered the door and he stuttered asking us to come to curlys for a drink. Nat turned him down. Went to dianes and jenn http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-730441.html Day 40 Spent the day at the beach bought a million pizzas from dominoes. Nat taught loz how to sew a button onto her top. Loz went to paradise island with zane to be greeted by his mates doin the small bounce dance.Day 41After work headed home and got ready for independance celebrations. Went to senor frogs with the irish for fajitas and gangsta music. Headed downtown nassau for the firework di http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Paradise-Island/blog-729472.html Day 37 Loz went for a run and met the prime minister who lives round the corner from us. Amelia found a lizard in the bathroom and rescued it. Went to cable beach and spent the day sunbathing.Day 38 Went to cable beach for a swim. 4th July watched the fire work display at sandals resort. Car alarms were going off because the fireworks were so loud. Amelia cried because she hates fire works.Day http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-728417.html day 37Nat usually sleeps with the lamp on and the night she doesn39t loz sleep talks in the middle of the night and tells her that theres someone in the room. Nat freaks out and cries. Went to the supermarket after work for big shop. Loz and nat dress up as retards for chat roulette.Day 38 Nat slept in fear with the light on. Hurricane debby was in florida and heading to Nassau. Loz and Amel http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Paradise-Island/blog-726038.html Day 33 Massive floods everywhere. Amelia finds a sean kingston lookalike on the side of the road asleep and dribbling and decides to take pictures of him. Loz did the washing and ironing something you dont see very often and went for a run along the beach. Nat cooked dinner.Day 34happy fridayyy On the way to work and Loz not looking where shes goin walks into a metal signpost and goes into wo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Paradise-Island/blog-725530.html day 30went to the beach after work. loz and nat went for a romantic italian meal in the sunshine. they even shared their two main meals. candles..the lotDay 31Came out of work and got drenched.Loz and nat craving seafood 247 had conch lobster shrimps and mussels. The mango delivery man landlord arrived and we now have a total of 100 mangos.Day 32 nat nearly wet herself after receiving an http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-724568.html day 27 Spent the day at cable beach topping the tan up. Went to Senor frogs later for a meal. Nat screamed when a cocktail joined us for the meal. Ended up gettin on the yards got a taxi home later. The taxi man was playing baby making music so we told him to put some rap and raggae music on and we soon turned the taxi into a party bus. Nat was apalled by the swearing in every song. Arrived home http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-724564.html Day 25the 2nd time that the landowner has knocked on to give us mangos. beginning to think hes up to something. Amelia who hates kids saw a kid who she considered as cute and actually smiled at him Loz had got food poisoning and was too weak to pick up a bottle of water. Went to the beach later and loz collapsed on the side road and the diva couldnt move for an hour.Day 26 A pigeon had a so http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-723230.html Day 20went to work Loz came out of work unexpectedly to be greeted by the major peri Gomez and was interviewed for Bahamian news. Came home from work and got caught in the heaviest rain thunder and lightening. The road turned into a river. That evening popped the news on to watch loz searching for her 100cc normal saline on tv.Day 21Went downtown nassau to get drinks in the supermarket Nat fo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-722608.html day 17 Tried conch for the first time as all the bahamians havn39t shut up about it. Not much to comment on it. Excessive sweating at work today. dived in the sea when we finished. Nat came home and slept like a baby. Amelia and loz watched Miss America and slagged all the girls off for their fake smiles and tacky outfits.day 18Woke up a million times in the night being bitten alive. Went to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-721495.html day 14 loz cleaned the whole of the apartment. The apartment itself was pretty much a beach with the amount of sand we had brought in. Later ditzy nat realised she had lost all her documents from the day before and ended up finding them later in the supermarket. Nat and loz went to Dominoes ate a million lava cakes and were almost sick in the process. Mart went back home to manchesda.Day 15 Wen http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-720777.html day 11For legal reasons we can39t include info about our jobs on this blog. Loz has kept a diary which can only be described as outrageous and is bound to shock people back home. With our bikinis on underneath our clothes we head straight to the beach on paradise island after work. watched the final of americas bets dance crew. That night the island had a powercut no water and no electricit http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Paradise-Island/blog-720561.html Day 8Woke up to the sun shining in our bahamian crib. Discovered more bites on our body. Nat did all the ironing..her favourite hobby. Went to Cable beach to tan our tushes. Came home and skyped friends and fam. Rach was well impressed with lozzas and nats skype dance. Drank a bottle of rum and went down to Senor frogs. Had the biggest fajita platter along with 3 yards each. The yards went straig http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-719312.html Day 7 Turned on the news to be warned that a tornado is heading our way. Nothing stopped us going to the beach that morning for a swim. Came off the beach later and spoke to a man who told us that there are hammerheads and tiger sharks in the sea and no nets are in place. The monsoon rain didnt stop all morning and we headed to Nassau International airport to meet Mart 39Stephenshon.39 On a http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-718922.html