Cococay, Bahamas

The second stop on our family cruise was Cococay, which is a private island in the Bahamas that is actually being leased by the cruise company, Royal Caribbean. Because of this I felt like we were on a stage set or an amusement park version of the Bahamas. That's not to say it was terrible, it was just odd.

The beach had beautiful white sand and the water was bathtub warm. The water was so shallow that you could walk really far out into the ocean without it getting more than knee-deep. I walked out as far as I could before I started to get creeped out by the ocean life—we saw jellyfish, regular fish and what were maybe sea cucumbers (?), and my uncles reported seeing starfish and small nurse sharks.

This was my first time on a Bahamian island and no matter how manufactured, it was really nice to finally see the indescribably blue water of the Caribbean and spend the day lounging by a lagoon, sipping an icy (aka alcoholic) beverage and soaking up all the sun my SPF-100'd skin could handle.