Curtis's Bahamian cruise aboard the Disney Wonder

I was really amazingly impressed and pleased with my fantastically fabulous cruise to the Bahamas aboard the M/S Disney Wonder in July 2004.

Here is a picture of Linda in Nassau relaxing with the M/S Disney Wonder in the background.

Linda sitting with the Disney Wonder in the background

Here's the ship without Linda in front

The M/S Disney Wonder in port at Nassau, Bahamas

Here's LInda sitting by one of the pools.

Here Linda and I are dining in Animator's Palate, the most interesting dining room on the ship. We also had to go to the Animator's Palate on the first day for a talk about lifeboats and so forth.

Here is Linda buying several pins on the ship at an ephemeral shop on the ship. There's lots to buy on the ship.

When we arrived at Castaway Cay, the wind brought us a brief tropical shower.

A windy tropical show greets us on Castaway Cay, an island which Disney purports to own in its entirety (under Bahamian sovereignty).

But soon it cleared up, revealing the beauteous island and its magnificent beaches with crystal-clear waters. What fun! Here are Linda and I relishing our time at Serenity Bay Beach on the cay.

Linda personally requested that I post this photo of the general beach area in spite of the fact that I took the picture as we were lying down in the hammock.

Chip, a crew member thankful for Disney's diversity policy as it applies to discrimination against non-human species.

Crew member Chip (so named for his nose the colour of a chocolate chip) greets us at breakfast. Chip has taken advantage of Disney's liberal diversity-in-hiring policy which apparently precludes any sort of discrimination against non-human species.

Linda was delighted when Willem the waiter scooped up her crumbs with his special device at Triton's restaurant aboard the ship.

Dinner aboard the Wonder was much more wonderful than at this rat-haunted dinner table on another ship we saw in Nassau (in the Pirates of Nassau museum).

Mickey's cousins, the rats, eat at their own table in the Nassau in the Pirates of Nassau museum.

I'm told this is the punishment in Bahamian schools for misspelling the word outmanœuvred in the American spelling style (that is, outmaneuvered).

Linda relaxexth on the deck chair:

The ship was so huge and had so many stabilising devices that no one got seasick except for this hypersensitive electronic device in the arcade. I'd seen reference to the “Quarter Masters”, presumably a normal quartermaster's office where folks could go if they needed an extra pillow or some rope or whatever. But no, Quarter Masters is the name of their arcade. I'm not sure if you can really use quarters there; most places on the ship you couldn't use cash but had to use a Tinkerbell credit card to have everything billed to your room.

Here is the Disney cruise terminal as it looked upon our return to Port Canaveral on a foggy Thursday morning.

Mickey Mouse biddeth farewell to the passengers as they disembark from the wonderful M/S Disney Wonder.

Cruise to the Bahamas

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