Final Stop...Port Lucaya

Well, we've come to the end of our trip to the Bahamas by entering Port Lucaya on Grand Bahama Island. We felt like we had entered Florida. This was nothing like the other Islands we had visited. "Kalik" is the beer of the Bahamas...John enjoyed a few of those. On Sunday, John and I decided to take the Public Bus (little vans that cost $1.25) to Freeport and visit the International Bazaar. We must have forgot what happens in the Bahamas on Sunday...absolutely nothing. The bus driver dropped us off and was "outta there" before we could tell him we wanted to go back. Here we were at a closed market in an obviously depressed area of town. There were actually two stalls open but they had nothing we "needed" but I felt a bit guilty knowing these women weren't going to make any money that day and bought a few sea shells from them. After walking around a closed shopping center for an hour or so we caught the next bus back to Port Lucaya. Closer to the marina was the lighthouse that we walked to. It was actually part of the Westin hotel but we walked down to the beach. Then we enjoyed REAL Greek "Gyros" for lunch. That evening the Space Shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral but it made quite the show for us at the marina. We heard a bit of hootin and hollerin from the 400 students there on Spring Break...yep, time to go.