Tuesday, February 06, 2018
Half Moon Bay- The Bahamas and Caribbean Island with rain
We don't get up early any more unless we have to and prefer to wait for everybody else to leave the boat before we do however today we are not going to bother getting of for a lump of sand and trees with very little facilities unless you like being on a sandy beach and want to go swimming in the sea, neither of these appeal to us however.
So we had our breakfast on the balcony which was quite nice and watched as people got on the tenders to the island and shortly after they left the heavens opened and it bucketed down for about 20 minutes. About 20 minutes later one of the tender returned with a load of very wet looking passengers wrapped in towels and so for them it was not a pleasant experience. There are the usual expensive tours on a horse, maximum weight per horse is 250 pounds ?? and finally the weather improved but its not a sunny day but rather cloudy and not that warm really, Jennifer has a blanket around her knees, and sitting out of the wind. We had decided to hang around the ship as the last tender back is anyway at 2.30 pm and as mentioned earlier unless you like sea swimming and the sand there is not much point of visiting the Island. Now if it was the Maldives with lovely weather and beautiful coloured fish and a nice warm 35 Degrees C that would be a different matter.
Unfortunately is still feeling some of the effects of whatever chemical was his dinner last night and so is a bit uncomfortable today so its a good thing we had nothing planned however tomorrow we are in the Turks and Cacos Islands and a walk around and perhaps some internet stuff would be goo, we shall see what happens. We have signed up for the minimum internet connection on board just for checking emails but of course its slow and not worth trying to upload the blog, that will have to wait until we get a proper fast connection so we can do photos as well and that most likely will be when we get back to Fort Lauderdale, we shall see.
There is a large PC presentation room for you to improve your learning skills with lectures on Windows 10 and about using digital cameras etc, Noel had thought of attending but actually he has been using windows 10 since it came out and his photos skills seem acceptable so will probably take a miss on this one. Besides certain flatulence matters might get in the way.
The captain weighed anchor or three at about 15.00 as as the ship turned there had been another Holland American Line ship also parked up, the ship was called the MV Vollendam and its quite a bit smaller, and older, than the Eurodam. So it might have been a bit more busier on the beach than we thought. So now we are off to Grand Turk Island where we should arrive tomorrow morning and we hope we can find some free Wi-Fi somewhere, we shall see.
The menu for the main restaurant tonight looked a bit difficult for Noel as there appeared to be an awful lot of Garlic or onions on everything and so we decided to go the the buffet instead where we thought the food may be a different choice except No, the nine or so main courses available were pretty much the same as in the main restaurant, and only one dish did not have Garlic and that one had onions instead. Oh this was looking difficult until we spied the pasta counter with a choice of four sauces, three of which had Garlic and only one a white sauce did not so that's what he had.
A quick walk around the ship was followed by watching the film ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ with many familiar faces. And so to bed.