Ship Decorations

Getting back to the Ship

Sir Milo Boughton Butler

First Bahamian Governor-General in an independent Bahamas

Tribute to the Bahamian Women

Bahamas Flag in front of the Bahamas Port Building

My face is in the middle of the costume.

Something that's hard to find in the States, perhaps an ancient relic

Almost to the ship!

Didn't see this sign until we were leaving for the last time

Ruins

At Fort Fincastle, we got hot and tired. We decided to walk in the direction of the ship. We started walking across parking lots where we could. At one of the parking lots we walked across these ruins. Chris asked the parking lot attendant what the ruins were. She said that they were from an old house of some rich people. There used to be a pool beside the house too. We don't come across ruins very much nowadays because they are usually torn down so some new plaza or shopping center can be built.

Fort Fincastle

Not very far from the ship after all!

I really do like these red trees!

Queen's Staircase

Okay, you can play the game of arranging these pictures into the correct order. It seems that I don't have the patience today to do it. Why didn't they download from the camera in the correct order?

Anyway, we came to the Queen's Staircase from the bottom. When we first approached it, it looked like an alley that was blocked off by some road closed thingamigs. You have to get past those to see this. It is awesome. When we got close to the top, an old guy in a wheelchair aproached the top. We stopped to get a breath, he told us that we were almost there. Our own personal cheerleader. When we made it, he told us the story of the Queen's staircase. To my best recollection: When Fort Fincastle was built, these limestone blocks were carved out to form an alley-way to safety for the governor when the pirates would attack. If the pirates could get ahold of the governor, they would have control of the Bahamas. They would then ransom the governor to highest bidder usually either England, France, or Spain. After Queen Victoria freed the slaves in the Bahamas, the freed slaves decided to carve these steps out of the rock out of graditude.

Now you may be wondering how our guide managed to get down from here to go home. He is not that crazy to get down. He goes down the hill on the opposite side. All around here is one giant hill.

This is definitely a place to visit if you are going to Nassau. Well worth the walk and playing dodge car.