Where's Nic?: Bahamas Vacation

Thursday morning we got up early, got all packed up for the beach and headed down for breakfast.

Afterwards, we came back to the room, got our stuff and headed to the gangplank to the tender that was taking us to the beach. Grand Stirrup Cay – NCL’s private island.

All the paperwork had said to not take any valuables or money because there were no lockers. And that beach chairs were first come, first serve. Hence the reason we made sure we were on the 2^nd tender.

Got over there and realized that no one else followed the “no valuables” rule – plus there was a straw market (they shipped some locals in to sell their crap) that only accepted cash. So much for leaving our wallets on the ship.

Oh well. Didn’t really want any of the stuff.

You would of thought there was a fire when we got off the tender. Mom high tailed it to the beach to ensure we got chairs. She knew that I would be cranky pants if I had to sit in the sand!

We picked our spot and got her snorkel vest rented – all snorkelers must wear a vest.

Got settled in our chairs and sat for about 40 minutes. Decided we should get in the water because more and more people were coming; which meant more and more people kicking up the sand.

Water was cold. And we had issues gearing up… but we eventually made it out to the couple of little reefs. It was ok. You could tell the fish were accustomed to being fed because they came right up to me…. Like inches from my face.

We spent about 45 minutes in the water and came in.

Took a bit to figure out where the shower was… got the gear cleaned up and then we showered.

Headed back to the chairs and sat for about 1.5 hours. When we started to get a little munchy – we headed back to the ship. We knew I wouldn’t eat the BBQ they were prepping on the island, so no sense in wasting our time.

Got back on the ship and it looked like Stanley and our stateroom attendant had been up to some mischief while we were gone.