Travel Diary: Bahamas
Saturday
Dear Diary,
Would you believe it; that I'm already in the Bahamas today. My parents have abandoned their usual tradition of going on vacation and deserting me and my siblings to the place I'm forced to call home, and have decided to take all of us to Paradise (or one of them since I've been to Hawaii, but you get the idea). The flight was a usual, annoying, egregious concoction of noise, lousy posture and juvenile delinquency (by that I mean all the noisy kids that serve as for me a good enough contraceptive). Thankfully before too long it was over, and we could actually focus on having a great vacation. We got a taxi driver who I swear sounds like Morgan Freeman, and started grocery shopping. The crazy thing with this place, for some reason the water is unsafe from the tap so you have to get it at the supermarket; or as I like to call it flat out *bleep*ing extortion. Still, I'm looking forward my first Caribbean trip. I'll write to you tomorrow
Sincerely,
The Man of Steele
Sunday
Dear Diary,
I think I'm warming up to this little part of the Caribbean (that or it's just my sunburn). Sunday was a rather memorable one. In the morning we actually went to church to celebrate Easter Sunday, however the nearest LDS church was in the capital on the main island. I assure you I'm not "going rogue" as you might put it, we decided it would be good if our family did something spiritual this Easter. Church was nice, they had a video on one of the returned missionaries service in Haiti; some colourful music praising God; and the kind of things what I would find in my own church service. After that we then rented a golf cart and did some sightseeing around town but the fun part was when we went snorkeling in the cay next to the resort. It wasn't as vibrant as Hawaii, but it made up for it in a big. Believe it or not I actually saw a sea turtle when I was in the cay, but it was pretty shy and it swam away. After that we hang around the house, dined on some homemade pizzas that mom made and headed to bed. What more can I say; I'm going to be in for a treat here.
Sincerely,
The Man of Steele
Tuesday
Dear Diary,
After a ho-hum Monday things really stepped up on the fun factor in Tuesday. It was off to a welcoming start with today's snorkel trip having an exciting encounter with a stingray; in fact so exciting that my exclamations could be heard throughout the whole bloody beach! It got better in the afternoon with our trip to the blue hole. What the blue hole is, is basically a large pond, not very big lengthwise, but what it lacks in diameter in has in depth. The thing is two hundred feet deep, and littered with all sorts of caverns and tunnels. So yeah it was fun except for when I met my nemesis: a literally bloodthirsty horsefly. But the best part was in the evening when the weather presented
a spectacular thunderstorm. Believe me I haven't seen one like it since I was twelve. Seriously it was nasty. Check out this clip below, I'm sure it'll be an enriching experience; and turn up the volume as well.
Friday
Dear Diary,
You will not believe what I did today. Mom and Dad had saved the best for last: a boat trip that would take us to some once in a lifetime experiences. A first we did a little snorkeling, that resulted in Sophia getting the best sand dollar in the whole trip. Things really started getting good when we got to witness Abaco's swimming pigs (no seriously, swimming pigs). So how it works, is that there's a little isle that home to a bunch of pigs that tourists stop by to feed. If you're lucky and hold out a sausage (what my family fed them despite my concerns about cannibalism) while your waist or knee deep they'll swim out to eat it. As fun as that was the best part came when when we traveled to Man Jack Key. The shallows were filled with stingrays who would swim up a eat whatever chunks of fish or squid you had in you hand. I got to feed three of them myself but one of them was a little pushy (literally) and shoved my from my backside. It got better when we went snorkeling in the water, where I encountered rays that were as big as me! But it hit a climax later on as I got to swim with fracking nurse sharks in the reef. And put sprinkles on the icing, two green sea turtles just so happened to be in the area as well! As much as I hate to say but this place is 4x better than Oahu if not 5! Shame this is my last day here, and I wish my parents move here, but that's life. Until next trip see you later, I've got some American Netflix to watch.
