Calm or Cruise ship day

The cruise ships docking in Freeport land in a commercial port with no beach or shopping near by. Those wanting a Bahamian beach experience are bused (by the hundreds) to our beach. What they get are ample opportunities to ride jet skis, banana boats and paddle boards. An open air restaurant/bar, of epic size, is waiting and hundreds of plastic chairs are neatly lined in the sand facing the ocean.

Our first clue of a cruise ship arrival is about 8:30 am when the beach boys start ferrying around the jet skis. A little after that 4 men start hustling out the chairs - 10 at a time per man. Then the buses start arriving. The first couple days we were here I had wondered at the large, wide round-about at the end of our street. After watching the huge buses coming down our road I wondered no more.

 A calm day, otherwise most of the picture would be white plastic and a few hundred extra people.

About a half mile down our road, at a wide spot in the water-way a flotilla of Canadian sailors has passed up the delights of the yacht club for the simple(inexpensive) life on anchor.