I made my first visit to a casino where I actually sat down and tried a few slot machines. We all went in with $20 to throw away. I played my first dollar for about an hour getting up to $13.50 before I lost it all. I tried $4 more to get get it back but ended up $5 in the hole when we left. Greg came out ahead at $21. It was fun..and the plus side is that Greg got to buy me lunch with his big winnings.
We did a fair amount of walking around which is the best way to see a place. Nassau has a very bad reputation for its high crime rate, but we were fortunate that we did not encounter any of it. There were some areas that seemed a bit sketchy, but the people couldn't have been any nicer. I got a hand bump from an 80 year old lady when she learned we were from Canada. She has two grandsons in Canada on university basketball scholarships.
We were very pleasantly surprised Saturday night with an amazing fireworks display in the harbour. It was very loud and very beautiful and no one knows what it was for. We figure it was some rich guys birthday celebration. Whatever it was for it was one of the best fireworks displays I've seen.
We enjoyed being on the dock as it gave us a break from having to dinghy ashore all the time. One downside was that this week we were experiencing extreme tides and so every low tide had us bouncing on the bottom and it was a bit of a stretch for someone with short legs to get from the deck of the boat to the dock.
We left Sunday morning for Chubb Cay, once again in a following sea. It was a 39 mile trip and we were pretty glad to pull into the cove to drop anchor. The plan was to get supper, relax a few hours and then head out at 1:00am to make Bimini by 4:00 pm the next day. However, the surge at the anchorage was so bad, there was no way to get any rest so by 7:00pm we had hauled anchor and had a very nice night sail to Bimini, arriving by 9:30 am.
Our arrival was greeted with a group of dolphins, the first we've seen since leaving Florida. I take this as a good sign. We also saw quite a large shark so that put an end to any thoughts of a last swim in the Bahamas.
We went to shore looking for sea beans. Mark and Kay found some, but I came up empty handed.
This was the perfect day to commemorate our last day in the Bahamas. The weather was perfect, sunny and hot with a gentle breeze. No other boats except our friends on CKII, and no traffic noise from the island. Greg and I celebrated together with a final Bahamian sundowner and talk of what we would be doing next year at this time.
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