We enjoyed Christmas with our Bahamian friends, Diane and Averil and their three children, nephew and friends. Ann went over to their house early to cook with Diane and help her prepare turkey, stuffing and mash potatoes. Meanwhile, the girls and I dinghied to a beach at the west end of the harbour plus visiting the harbour at Atlantis to see the mega-yachts. We then went over for a wonderful Christmas dinner.
Junkanoo started at 2AM, December 26th. I woke Ann (as planned) at 2AM, again at 4AM and finally at 5:30AM we went to see the floats and costumes. What a wonderful parade although the participants were already looking exhausted by 10AM when we left but still had 3 hours to go. This is a competitive event with the big groups having almost 1800 people all in costumes that they began in February.
On the 27th we left for Allans Cays (pronounced keys). The weather was rough but the girls really wanted to be on an empty island group. Unfortunately the trip took nine instead of 5 hours due to the high waves and poor wind angle. Still, we arrived before dark and looked forward to a nice day on the 28th. These cays have a large population of iguanas that we fed orange rinds. Later we went snorkeling on a reef midway between Allans and Highbourne cays. We returned uneventfully to Nassau on the 29th after stopping at Rose Island for another beach walk and some snorkeling.
For our final night we enjoyed the cuisine at the Potter's Cay fish fry which consists of various small shacks that due conch chowder, fritters and fish in a very Bahamian style. After dinner we went to Atlantis resort to look at the beautiful aquarium and the resort.
Andrea and Rachel left on the 30th but we enjoyed their company immensely and will miss them.
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