Tanner Life

Nassau:
Day #3 was spent in Nassau. Here is the first part of our day!

Andy & I left @ 9:00AM that morning for a visit to a small beach island called Black Beard's Cay. We had taken hours choosing an excursion that would be fun, but not cost alot. This trip was just $27 a person. It started with a 20 minute boat ride over to the little island. We arrived and were very pleased with how adorable the little place was!

We realized right off the bat that we were missing something awesome though. You could have added a "snorkel with the sting rays" to bring the price up to about $58 a person. I'm not a big snorkel person, so figured it wasn't worth it. As soon as we stepped off the boat though, I realized I was wrong. The sting ray side was roped off to one edge and from the dock you could see 100's of the swimming creatures. They were all sizes from tiny to HUGE! They were goregous. You didn't have to actually "snorkel" with them either, you could stand or sit right there in the edge of the shallow water and they were all around you. I watched them interact with the people for a long time, wishing I would have been brave enough to try it. We'll FOR SURE go back and do that one again!!! I also found out that the "Thriller" speed boat that we'd thought of riding, was another deal you could add. We'd thought of just taking the speed boat ride around the island. Who knew that for $68 a person we could have done the sting ray thing and rode the speed boat, arriving at the island in just 6 minutes! Man..... there's just one more reason to go back!

There were oodles of chairs along the beach, no worries of not getting one of those! There was a little bar where you got a free rum punch or free fruit punch just for coming, they had bar drinks as well as soft drinks to buy. There was a grille if you wanted to buy lunch there, a gift shop, fresh water showers, plenty of rest rooms, hammocks in the shade, a playground for the kiddies and water sports that you could do for an added cost. It was a great deal and we really enjoyed it. We spent about 3 hours there before it was time for our experience there to end.