Spent most of the day relaxing around the apartment and getting ready for our departure early tomorrow at 0445. When we hired the car, we were advised that if we paid in cash we could have a 5% discount. As the office was not going to be open when we got back there in the morning, we had to go back to the airport to pay this. This was also a good opportunity for us to find out exactly how to get back to the airport. Managed to get everything cleaned and packed back into the three suitcases and ready for our departure. ... read more

From early laast night, all through the night and today, we have had heavy hurricane type wind and rain. It shows how well everything is constructed here, as there are no fallen trees or houses. Never seen anything like it. We had a quick venture out for some urgent supplies, but other than that we were confined to the apartment for the day. There was a lot of cleaning up of dead leaves that had been blown to the ground, plus there were some repair men out repairing fallen cables, but other than that, there were not a lot of people out and about. As we did not want to get caught in the wind in the dark, we bought food to cook in the apartment for dinner. It made a nice change from the spicy ... read more

We had been given details of the International Bazaar, including the perfume factory, by the complex on which we are staying. The bazaar is just around the corner from the supermarket that we visited on the first night here, so we know roughly where it is. Whilst driving there, we spot the Grand Bahamas port marked on the map. As we both like boats, and this is not too far from the bazaar, we decided to take a quick detour to look around the boats. At first it looked like we were not going to be able to get very close. The first place we looked was on the wrong side of the estuary. We continued down the road and came across another road sign posted to the port. This took us right down to the ... read more

Another early morning so we could get all packed up and out of the apartment by the check out time of 10am. With all the bits that we have bought in Miami, we have had to use the suitcase we bought in addition to the ones we brought with us. We had planned to replace one of them with the new case. Managed to get everything packed in well within weight limits. Stopped off at Denny’s’ for traditional breakfast rather than buying it at the airport. Got to the airport with plenty of time and proceeded through a very smooth checking. The gate at Miami Airport today is right at the very end of the satellite. This is where American Airlines launch all their small plane Island hoppers. It was such a small plane, they could ... read more

On the way into Deerfield Park on Saturday, we noticed a sign for the butterfly park. Also, we had been given a discount ticket by the apartment owners. This morning we headed to the butterfly park, but were not expecting too much. We were very pleasantly surprised. There was an area where butterflies flew wild within a huge enclosure that you walk through. After this was a similar enclosure full of little birds. The next room had about 10 medium sized parrots. We were offered liquid food to eat them. What a great experience this was. See loaded photographs etc. It's been a nice 92 degrees for the past few days now. We were in the park for a good 3 hours this morning and would definitely recommend this to anyone visiting this area. Had a ... read more