Queen's Staircase

We have been on vacation!  One of the relatively newer aspects of Blogger is the ability to schedule posts, so while you were (perhaps) reading Sandpiper's Thoughts last week, I was on a cruise with my family.  Great week.

Our cruise destination was the Bahamas -- Nassau and Freeport.  The photo in the post is from one of my favorite spots in Nassau - the Queen's Staircase.  We were distracted from taking pictures of it by the several people who wanted to give us tours of the Staircase and Fort Fincastle.

Nassau (on the day we were there) was very HOT.  We walked from the ship up hill through the city to the staircase.  There are 65 steps from the bottom of a canyon up to the top.  They were carved out of the stone by slaves on the island in the late 1700's.  The canyon is filled with lush, green vegetation -- it was green and cool.  I would have loved to stay there and soak up the serenity (and take some pictures), but I felt rushed and watched.

Anyway, it was beautiful.