Island HoppInn Cat Island
Fernandez Bay Cat Island, Out Islands, Bahamas
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Finding Solitude on Princess Cays
... which was very pleasant. We sat outside both coming and going.
Arriving at the cays, we cringed at the crowds on the lounge chairs and laughed at the people in their tiny bungalows ($xxx gets you a small enclosed room with plastic table and chairs and a concrete slab with more plastic chairs. The pathway goes between the bungalows and the beach … I would have been very upset to have paid so much extra for that), then passed ...
Into the Atlantic
Embarkation day. It began chaotically. Pas and Sue called to say they were on the 10:45 shuttle, and to try to arrive around 11:15, so that we could all board together. We arranged a taxi, but I had some work that I needed to do, and Paul and the kids had to delay brekkies because of a long line, so we were rushed leaving the hotel. We had a nice drive to the cruise port, along the beach and through some posh neighborhoods.
Arriving at the cruise port, we checked the ...
Earthwatch Project - reefs and mangrove rivers
... mangrove river. Each of us was assigned a small group of fish that we had to identify, count, and measure. This data would be used to better determine what patch reefs need to be protected on Eleuthera.
Each day we would visit multiple patch reefs. We would snorkel around the reef, counting fish. Once the counting was completed we would take many measurements of ...
Half Moon Cay, Our Private Island Paradise
The next day was our stop on Half Moon Cay. Little San Salvador Island, Bahamas (also known as Half Moon Cay), is one of about 700 islands that make up the archipelago of the Bahamas. It is a private island, owned by Holland America Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation which uses it as a one-day stop (port of call) ...
Strange and beautiful
Despite the idea that going to the "Alcatrez of South America" conjured up images of a rocky outcrop in a gray sea, our trip to Iles du Salut, French Guiana turned out to be very interesting. Palm trees were swaying, the sun shining and balmy breezes greeted us in this former penal colony. The history began when Napoleon started sending over both criminal and ...


