Cruise Ships & "Crashing" Pools Nassau, Bahamas April 18, 2006
Our stay in Nassau was very pleasant. We were anchored on the edge of the large harbor where cruise ships came and went almost daily. Our favorite ship was Disney Wonder. She is much less boxy than many others, with an elegant design. She is painted black and white with generous dabs of gold and red. When about to depart, or announcing her arrival, she toots a mighty first seven notes of “When you wish upon a star”. A rendering of Mickey Mouse at the wheel of a ship is painted on the bow. Wonder's hawsers look to be pure gold. We noticed many children amongst the passengers and one family told us they had spent three days at Orlando’s Disneyland and were presently on a four day cruise to Nassau, then to an island Disney owns, and back to Canaveral.
Marnie loves to crash hotel pools, and prided herself that she had never been denied access to one. However, when we visited the Hotel Atlantis here, she saw that the security was too tight to allow her trespass -- what a blow! We swam on a nearby Paradise Island beach and visited the famed Cable Beach nearby on the island of New Providence. We saw a bit of Sid who appears about my age and sails a trimaran he keeps on Staniel Cay in the Exumas. Sid has spent the past six summers in Stonington, Maine, near Islesboro, where he works to save $3000 which gets him through the year. It is no wonder Sid refused to start his outboard to get through Nassau’s East Channel when the wind died, with gas at $4.20 a gallon here.
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