Coco Cay, an ACTUAL Bahama

How much is an island?

I want to buy a Bahama.

  The Royal Caribbean Cruise Line owns a Bahama, one of the first cruise lines to lease an island for their own exclusive use. Coco Cay is not even a mile wide and is only 200 yards long and is exactly how you would imagine a tropical island to be.

Talcum powdery, icing sugar sand, clear blue sea, numerous fish, manatee, stingrays and a heron, jetskis and snorkelling stuff..... there was even a nature trail.

But first I had to do a handstand. Tricky.

 I had to have an assist because I kept sinking in the sand.

Then I had to do a plank. No one has sent me a plank from the Bahamas yet.

Yes, there was a bit of seaweed but WE WERE BY THE SEA! What do these cruise critics expect??

The heron didn't seem bothered we had disturbed his peace.

But people were just chillng anyway, it was so peaceful.

Although we did cause a bit of a stir with our Santa Malarkey.

 We tried to be quick about it.

Plank with.

Plank without.

Lunch was superb. Not just hotdogs and burgers but BBQd fish and fruit and salad.

How DO they get all the food across to the island...the crew must hate Coco Cay day but it was so well organised.

There were loads of activities.

Snorkelling was popular. I just used my swimming goggles and I saw loads of fish.

You could just about hear the hum of the jet skis in the distance.

And then.

And then.

And then.....

we walked barefoot round to the other side where the sea was about a foot deep for about half a mile out...

and fish swam around our feet in 2 inches of sea.

There was no need to pay extra for a cabana

because I was too busy wallowing ...

It really was like a tropical paradise....

.... laid back and delightful and so relaxing and our blood pressure probably dropped dramatically because it was just so peaceful and quiet.

But we needed to stretch out legs and have a stroll along the nature trail so we reluctantly left our spot

and caught up with another huge iguana...

before being completely unhassled when trying to buy a teeshirt. 

Blimey, did they not WANT to make a sale? They were as chilled as us.

But all good things must come to an end  and we had to get back on the ship.

And to bring us back down to earth after such a wonderful day we then heard the news of the atrocities in Paris. Words cannot describe how we both felt.