Playtime

Here in Nassau, we have finally booked into a marina for the first time in over a year. My famous unwillingness to spend money, coupled with Gesa's dislike of manoeuvring the boat into narrow spaces and marina berths, has kept us happily at anchor for almost every night since St Lucia.

So why does this morning find us paying two hundred dollars a night to tie up to a few bits of wood and concrete?

Because this is Atlantis, that's why! The Atlantis resort is a huge complex of hotel, casino, aquariums, swimming pools and water rides. Book into the marina and everyone on board gets a pass to all of this - it's actually cheaper to pay for the berth than buy day tickets for the family, so here we are.

We had a fun day here yesterday. The aquarium and water rides are sort of intertwined, so you can ride a water chute that goes through a perspex tube that runs through the shark pool, for example. The most gentle ride is the 'Lazy River', a mile long route that you ride on an inflatable ring, involving some rapids, tunnels, waves and so on. Max loved it so much he rode it four times. Issie initially played here drama queen 'I'm scared' card to maximum effect then got over it and rode a couple of big slides before spending much of the time in one of the pools splashing happily.

More today, and we'll take the good camera with us an post some more pictures.