Pineapple Fields Hotel Condo Eleuthera

... wonder at why there weren&#8217;t any nationality markers on it, though. Ah, what do I know anyway, right? <br><br>Supper was for Mom&#8217;s 60th birthday party at Portofino&#8217;s Italian Restaurant. Oh, my God, was it ever good. The service was exceptional, the food was amazing, the cake we ordered for mom was out of this world, and they still pushed us to take more dessert back to our rooms to consume later. I definitely have to get some exercise tomorrow!<br><br ...

... aquamarine water... we were also greeted by the local stingray..... and a little historical tour of the island..... and a moment on a sandbar.... This is privately owned cay (pronounced as key) ... 44 of them owned by one person. <br><br>I would say this is one real Bahamas......

On our way to the island tour, we were welcomed by a friendly stingray and gave us the experience of being suctioned by its mouth as we tried to feed him. But then, he realized that we don't have any food for him so eventually, he left but gave us the knowledge of not fearing them. They are gentle creatures of the sea.

A different kind of experience... feeding shark in broad daylight.....shoreside.....<br><br>Free port has one at Pier One, but you are like so high above the waters and in the evening. So all you are seeing are but splashes made by the shark as they feed. <br><br>Here, you will see the entire length of the shark under the very crystal clear waters, just one meter high.<br><br>

... need a bit more alcohol in our system first!<br><br>Being as over whelmed as we were we managed to stuff our faces within about 5 minutes of boarding the ship (Free style dining is going to make us the size of houses!) and shortly later and the sail away party we were eating again! We've got to get our moneys worth out of the food haven't we and with 6 on board restaurants, all serving food 24 hours a day we're certainly giving it a good go!<br><br ...

After few hours of sailing, we arrived at the port of Harbour Island. We rented a golf cart for 50 dollars ovenight with full gas without having to worry about insurance and returning the cart with full gas. The instruction to us is to just leave the cart at the port with it's key in it when we leave.<br><br>This ain ...

... our own meals mostly, using fresh fish (Nassau grouper and trigger fish) that we bought from the locals. We also tried some conch fritters at a restaurant which were yum. Last night we attended the local fish fry, a big bbq party for the local community, and bumped into many fellow vacationers (mostly American) that we had met earlier in the week- its a small town and all that. Now we are back in Nassau until Sunday when we fly to Panama. Lots of love xxx

We had an awesome first full day of the cruise. Woke up early so we could get over to the beach for a full day of snorkeling and we weren't let down. Bought a few packs of fish food and we had feeding frenzys around us. Unfortunately we didn't take the camera ashore.

... garden of our very own... I kep on humming... "I'd like to be... under the sea...!" That was until our last day... and the experience that I had always knew might happen. At this stage of the trip, I considered myself an accomplished snorkeler and I was busy tracking some fish around the coral reef to get some close ups with our underwater camera. I had been tracking one particular red puffer fish and was just getting close enough to get a picture ...

We decided in order to experience the local feel of the Bahamas, we needed to go to one of the "outer islands", far from the huge resorts and spring break - yes we timed that perfectly, requiring that we get away from Nassau. So my friend and I boarded a tiny 6 person plane (including pilot!) over gorgeous blue-green waters to one of the outer islands. We caught a taxi for about $35 to our hostel Surfer ...