We’re in early to Nassau, followed closely by the Oasis
of the Seas (such a monster ship!), then NCL and another RCL ship right behind
us. For some reason we aren’t allowed
off the ship for about an hour. Not that
it bothers us – we’ve nothing planned except walking down to Arawak Cay where
the Fish Fry places are located.
It’s a beautiful day – sunny, warm with a nice strong
refreshing breeze (ok, wind, it’s pretty strong, but it is refreshing!). We skip off the ship around 8:30 or so, and
head through the gauntlet of tour, taxi and horse and buggy drivers. Finally outside the port (which is a maze – I
tell you!), we head down the main street toward Arawak. It’s a nice walk – probably 1 to 1.5 miles
each way – with the sun shining and the wind blowing we pass through the main
town area (including the Dunkin Donuts!!) and then down past Junkaroo beach (where
vendors are just starting to arrive).
Once past the beach, the streets and sidewalks are pretty
deserted, which makes for a nice little walk.
We get to Arawak Cay and of course, since this is Fish Fry restaurant
heaven, not much is open at 9:00 in the morning. More a lunch and dinner place – but we wanted
to see it and get a feel for what was here in case we wanted to come back.
Which, of course, we decide we don’t – why waste the food on the ship!
After a picture to prove Sunny has actually begun his
international travels,
we head back into town – detouring through the straw
market which was spectacularly uninteresting.
(Thailand has ruined us forever for markets!) We actually wondered if anyone would open up
their little stalls and stands today, being that it is Easter Sunday – but by
the time we return from our Arawak walk, everything is open and bustling! Not to worry cruisers- your dollars are good
here!
It’s a whopping 10am and we really aren’t ready to go
back to the ship yet – so we stop by Sharkeez for a very early beer. Yeah, well, what can we say? Sunny enjoys the friendly locals
And we sit on the outside deck, passing time, watching
the cruisers pour out of the port, using the free wi-fi and chatting on Skype.
Back aboard well before lunch – oh well – what else is
there to do? It was actually fun and
relaxing. Lunch, then hanging around on
our balcony watching the thousands of people streaming back aboard the Oasis
and the idiots that were ½ an hour late who weren’t even running to get back
aboard. From the pages we could hear, we think they left 4 people behind! Hey – when the captain says we’re sailing –
they’re sailing! Although – to some of
their credit, possibly, the cell phones picked up some bizarre network and had
the time wrong by an hour – so if you were looking at your cell for a clock –
you thought it was an hour earlier than it actually was. We’ll give the family that ran aboard really
late that pass- but the 4 drunk guys who stood at the end of the gangway
guzzling the last of the beer don’t get any consideration at all! We’d have left them!
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