Norwegian Cruise Line private island after multimillion refurbishment

Norwegian Cruise Lines pioneered cruise industry in many ways. One of them is having a private tropical island where the guests can ejoy while being absolutely safe and in the hans of the same people who take care of them daily.
Below are some picture of what the island of Great Stirrup Cay looks like after it had undergone a major refurbishment.

Nassau. Cabbage beach.

Nassau is one of the busiest cruise ship ports in the world which (after recent refurbishment) can accommodate up to 6 big (and I mean big - 1 to 4 thousand passengers) ships. Nassau is easily accessible from all major cruise ports such as Miami, Port Canaveral and even New York, Therefore every crewmember who spent even a little time in cruise industry has close to 100 per cent odds of going to Nassau.

This is why it is so surprising that so many of the thousands crewmwmber do not know about Cabbage beach and are truly amased after having seen these photos.

One of our favorite beaches.

Tour to Bahamian National Park

National park on Grand Bahama island in the Bahamas.
The beach that it for some reason called Gold Rock even though there is neither nor gold nor rocks. Only golden sand... 

Национальный Багамский заповедник.

Это - пляж, который почему-то называется Gold Rock - "Золотой камень" - вот такие они, багамцы

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The same beach, different angle 

  Тот же пляж.

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Here and there one can see huge tree trunks

То тут, то там попадаются огромные корни деревьев.

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In order to get to the beach one has to cross mangrove sanctuary. Mangrove trees are short and grow with their roots in the water. Their roots are so firmly grown into the bottom and they are so firmly connected that even the hurricanes that blow off the roofs and destroy the houses are no danger to them. 

Чтобы попасть на пляж нужно пройти сквозь мангровые заросли. Мангровые деревья невысоки, растут по колено в воде, но их корневая система настолько мощно врастается в землю и переплетается друг с другом, что им не страшны даже ураганы, которые разрушают дома и сносят крыши.

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Here are these roots. By the way, they says that the city of Saint Petersburg lays on these roots. Is it true? Who knows...  

Вот эти корни. Кстати, говорят, корни мангровых деревьев лежат в основе Санкт-Петербурга.

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Bahamas: fish fry

Cultural show held on Grand Bahama island in July 2009
Local tradition is to hold so-called fish-fry every Wednesday. The local families drive to the seaside eateries and fry fish and seafood. As it is very (let me stress it again - very!) authentic thing it looks pretty much like this:

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Next day there was a cultural show held on the main square. It started with fire show:

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Here is the what a local dancer looks like:

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The highlight of the show: Bahamian Barbecue

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Finally the fire is swallowed:

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Acrobats' show. Norwegian Jewel.

Here is a glimpse of a show held onboard the Norwegian Jewel. It was designed, choreographed, put together & performed by talented Ukranian acrobats Denis & Olena

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