[ Holding out the fish ]

The guide on the boat made a habit of dangling hunks of fish just out of the water, so that the sharks would come up and grab it from him. When someone asked if he'd ever been bitten, he replied that he was safe because sharks don't like chocolate. Seriously.


[ Sign next to parrots ]

This sounds like reasonable advice to me ...


[ Guy petting bird ]

... but this guy wasn't convinced. His girlfriend had the camera out and was telling him to get closer.


[ Antennas on the bus ]

On the bus ride back to the hotel after the snorkeling, Emma and I sat up right at the front and I snapped this shot as we drove along the coastline. This antenna farm was facing west, toward the not-too-distant Florida coastline, and if I had to guess I'd say it's for long-distance telephone service.

This is as good a time as any to point out that Bahamians drive on the left side of the road (which you can sort of tell from the photo) and yet most vehicles are left-hand drive. This is probably owing to the ease of importing standard North American cars from the U.S. compared to importing from the home of the empire. Yet most of the service vehicles (trucks, vans, buses and many taxis) were indeed right-hand drive, probably owing to the advantage in driving on the left of the road. Unfortunately this puts them at a slight disadvantage at tollbooths, as we discovered when we crossed the bridge back to Paradise Island and the driver had to get Emma to pass over the toll through the front passenger window.






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