Walk to Paradise Island

We start at the hotel and go a block to the normally busiest street in Nassau. But this morning it is empty. After walking three blocks I turned and took a picture of Bay Street looking back at the hotel(orange roof building-far end of street.) Every corner had a police officer keeping traffic from entering. After three blocks, I inquired. We were about to witness a State funeral for a recently deceased Member of Parliament. In a block we would have noticed. The next picture shows the members of the military carrying the casket.


The funeral march proceeded down Bay Street to the Cathedral. It was quite a show of Military Pomp. We spent a bout 20 minutes watching the ceremony and than continued our walk to a more
joyful destination.









This picture is taken from the top of the Paradise Island bridge. It shows the Atlantis Hotel in the background and the Paradise Island Time Share Condos in the foreground. The boats are passenger ferries which run people back and forth between Nassau downtown and Paradise Island.($3 ea way) After walking around the Atlantis Hotel, Ronnie elected to experience the boat ride and I walked back. We arrived at the same time in Downtown Nassau.

I needed the walk to get my mind off not having any money on the number 20. We watched the roulette table and saw several people betting heavy on the number 20 and sure enough it came up. The holder of the pink chips won $1100+ and the gray won $600+, the yellow won $210.

On the walk to Paradise Island, we passed the pink colored building shown left. It is a restaurant called "Luciano's of Chicago". We stopped in the place to check it out and booked a reservation for 1830. Ronnie learned on the ferry back to Nassau that it is a 5 star restaurant.

Having just returned from dinner, We all agree it is worthy of the 5 stars. We sat waterside and have a delicious Italian meal, and the service was superb. Maybe, I'll suggest to the staff of Avanti's in Pennington that they come to the Bahamas to see how to cook and serve Italian food with elegance.

The final picture is a curly tailed gecko very common on most of the 700 Islands of the Bahamas.
Tomorrow is my last day in Paradise. I have a 10:00 am departure scheduled for Sunday. Flight planning a 2 hour trip to Richmond, Va where we will clear US Customs and drop off two of our passengers. Hopefully I will be airborne again 40 min later and a 40 minute trip to Trenton.

The airplane is schedule for a 1630 departure to Las Vegas, thankfully, with a per diem Captain and the usual first officer.