Exploring the Lost World of Atlantis

We both slept well last night although it was rough. Lynde was talking to someone and they said their stateroom was on Deck 1 and the captain lowered the ship - they said they watched the water coming up and wondered whether the boat was sinking. I never heard of that but Lynde said that the waves are splashing up to deck 3 and got her sweater wet on the back.

I went to breakfast

Breakfast bread

and had their version of ranchos hueveros (which I really liked)

Ranchos Nueveros as done by Carnival

and I lost Lynde and we didn't get back together until we both got back to the room. I ate at the next table to a man who was from England but who was born in Nassau and he had never been back until today. I can use the chock to hold the door open and get into the room by myself.

Chock to hold open the door

Anyway they notified Lynde that her excursion was canceled because of lack of participation, so after breakfast I persuaded her to sign up for the tour of the Atlantis aquarium instead of going snorkeling. That left at 1:30. She thought about doing the Ardasta gardens, but I thought they might still be decimated by the hurricane. She went up to do the seaweed wrap (which she said was marvelous). She has a watch but it needs a battery so she never knows what time it is. I went out on deck to see us come into port. BTW, the door ramps are not very east to cross - some of them are better than others - some of them I get hung up on.

Atlantis resort in the distance

Hotel beach on the harbour

Lighthouse

Freighter dwarfs the lighthouse 2016

We were coming in really slowly - I saw the tide was pushing us out of the dock, but he didn't come in hot like the HAL captains do.

Oasis of the Seas

Enchantment of the Seas at the next dock

were already here. Sunshine (our ship) is about the same length as Enchantment (and smaller than Oasis) but we have the big water slide. Our dock space is also used by Pride.

Fork lift and dock lines at Carnival Pride's and Carnival Sunshine dock space

I couldn't see who was going to do anything with dock lines, but eventually there were a couple of guys with fork lifts who got the bow and stern lines.

Lines from deck 3 to secure the gangways

There was someone dropping lines from deck 3 and I could not see what the purpose of them was, but eventually they secured the gangways. We were to get off on deck 0 (zero)

Tour ticket

Anyway we went out to get in line for the tour and neither of us had time to eat lunch. We went out and had to fold the scooter up to get on a van.

Folded scooter in the van

Nassau end of the bridge

Going across the bridge

We had a very nice girl who took us all through the resort

Decor of Crystal Court area

and casino

Crystal Gate at the casino entrance

(there were four Chiluly glass sculptures counting the one at the casino entrance)

Temple of the Sun

Temple of the Moon

Seaform chandelier

and the aquarium part. The astrolab thing isn't there anymore and neither are the jellyfish. I didn't think the water was as clear, nor did I think it was as picturesque as when we were there before. We walked around the great tank for several views of it.

Shark

Ray

Curved stone arch

Fish swimming by

Ray

Another shark

Archeologist desk

Another view of the "archeologists" area

"Tunnel" for the dig around the main tank

Individual Lobster tanks

Tank at the end of the tunnel

Fish in the Great Hall

Silver fish

Fish in front of steps

Fish in Atlantis

Groupers

Grouper looking disapprovingly at my scooter

Starfish - Individual species tank

Moray eels

Moray eel tank

Hyroglyphics

Our guide and some of the other tour group

One of the "Atlantis" dive suits behind a tourist

Astro navigation globe

Afterwards she told us how we could get to the predator tank and they were feeding the sharks at 3, so we went over there.

Aquarium Surface Tanks

Lynde saw them feed the sharks at least from a distance.

Feeding the shark

Feeding the sharks

Sharks waiting to be fed

There was also a possibility of snorkeling in the big tank (for $129.00/person). We didn't do that and Lynde didn't have the chance to swim which she had wanted to do. I had a hard time getting into the shark tunnel but eventually we found an entrance that didn't have steps.

Inside the predator tunnel

Instructional sign inside the predator area

Shark tunnel

Sawfish

OOH - a ray

Ray Surface Tanks

Baby Turtle Tanks

We did some shopping there (they said their machine was not working so we had to pay cash) and then got into the van to go back to the ship (the excursion was $45 and the van to and from was included). Lynde folded up the scooter and I got on the van but the scooter was still on the sidewalk. Apparently there was a Youth Parade in downtown Nassau and the streets were blocked so we couldn't get back to the ship.

Lynde on the sidewalk talking to the van drivers

Oasis left a 3 and Enchantment was to leave at 4 and there were some folks on the shuttle who were worried about getting back but the lady in charge of the van shuttles said they emailed the ship and told them that they would be late back, so they wouldn't miss the ship. And Enchantment was still there when we got back.

Carnival Sunshine with Enchantment behind her

Line to board the ship

We got ready for dinner

Entrance to the Sunset Restaurant

- we both had what was billed as a crab soup made with locally caught crab, but there was very little crab in it - it was a hot tomato based soup.

Crab soup

Then I had the

Junkanoo pot

which was to have shrimp, calamari and chicken with pineapple and pepper. But I didn't see any pineapple. It actually did have shrimp, a little calamari and one piece of chicken, but it also had mussels and quite a few scallops. Lynde had the veal parmesan and also a pina colada.

Pina Colada $9.96

For dessert she had pashion fruit flan and I had orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream.

And we finally got a real

Ice Bucket