Two Tickets to Paradise!

Hellz yeah!  We finally booked our vacation!  We’re headed to the Bahamas!  The countdown is ON.  Nothing relaxes me like a beach vacation.   I guess you could say I’m a pretty high-strung individual (no snarky comments) so  I look forward to a beach vacation every year to completely decompress, recharge and completely relax. Sort of cliche, I know, but I can’t help it.

Half the fun of vacations is all the planning involved.  I’m a deal-huntin crazy person.  However, I’m not willing to sacrifice the overall experience just for cost.  Luckily, with my find for this year’s trip, we have the best of both worlds!  I am totally anti touristy-type-places with mile after mile of all-inclusive resorts.  To me, there’s no character in that, no challenge, no chance of getting a real adventure.

I knew we wanted to do something Caribbean.  I knew it had to be cheap.  I knew it had to be a place right on the water (I wanted to hear the waves from bed).  I found exactly what I wanted with Staniel Cay.  It’s an out-island of the bahamas.  Found a super cool hotel made up of individual cottages right on the water, all with individual porches AND your own boat to tour the little islands at your leisure.  Supposedly, you just take the boat until you find an island that no one has claimed yet and it’s yours for the day!  And, adventure there is!  A cay inhabited by swimming pigs?  Check.  Underwater cave as seen in a James Bond flick?  Check.  A cay inhabited by giant and friendly lizards?  Yep.  Miles and miles of little islands to explore and claim for yourself for a day of soakin’ in the sun in complete privacy.  Ah-huh.  No cheesy cement-laden tourist traps here.  Just completely unspoiled island beauty at its best.  And, I can’t wait.

Craig was pretty excited too.  That is, until he saw this 1st video.  Ignore the highly annoying dude, please.

About half-way in, you’ll see why.  Lots of damn sharks hangin’ round in the clear blue waters of the bahamas, eh?  Craig was a bit freaked out to say the least.  Sharks and those darn giant stingrays!!  Of course, I gave him a hard time:

“Seriously?  You’re such a wimp.  Plus, those were little sharks.  And also, we’ll be in clear, shallow waters where we can see if anything’s coming our direction.  Also, those were like nurse sharks or something, they eat like plankton and stuff.  Man, you’re a wuss.”

I think I had him convinced until the very next morning when I tuned into the Today Show and these were the literaly first words we heard:  “And, now onto a terrifying shark attack and a heroic rescue involving a husband and wife on a romantic getaway vacation in the Bahamas”.  Jesus.

Sharks- maybe a bit more adventure than we bargained for, I guess.
Yeah. Well. Sharks are everywhere, right? And, we won’t be doing any spear-fishing.

And, I’ll be sure to pump a good bit of iron from now until then, just in case I have to lift Craig into a boat or something like that.
GEEZ, relax. I’ll look after my man, no worries. We’ll stick to the very shallow waters, and I’m pretty sure the swimming pigs’ll save us if we need savin’.  All’s good.

….. I’m just putting that little tid-bit about bull sharks being so dangerous, especially since they are common in shallow tropical waters, outta my head. Zen-it-out, Spiesman.