First, to the Cloister and Versailles Gardens, located on Paradise Island http://www.karensgardentips.com/garden-travel/bahamian-gardens/versailles-garden-and-cloister-paradise-island-bahamas/
The Cloister is a French cloister from a 14th century Augustinian monastery, dismantled and imported from Europe by William Randolph Hearst. It was purchased while still in pieces from Hearst's estate by Huntington Hartford and reassembled stone by stone here as the centerpiece of the Versailles Gardens on Paradise Island. Overlooks Nassau Harbor to one side, and the Versailles Gardens to the other.
I love the statue of the woman in the center of The Cloisters.
Across the street is the Versailles Gardens. Beautiful, colorful flowers everywhere - Hibiscus -
Water lilies in the ponds.
A statue of mother and child. That is the Cloister in the far background.
Hercules standing in a pool of water lilies.
Next, the shops of Paradise Island!
The ships...oh, my, the private yachts! We googled this one - rents for about $120,000 per week, but it DOES sleep 12. Of course, the food, drinks, taxes, tips to the entire crew, etc, are not included.
As we crossed back across the bridge from Paradise Island to the mainland of New Providence Island, you could see the enormous 4 cruise ships, waiting in port while their passengers shopped and dined.
With limited time left on our rental car, we scooted over to the west end of the island to the third and final fort. Ft. Charlotte. http://www.bahamas.com/node/50514#zoom=14&lat=25.08311&lon=-77.30667&layers=T0B00 This is again a British/Colonial era fort built to protect the island. As the others, it never saw battle. One section is the built in the paddle steam boat design as Ft. Fincastle.
Her thick walls would definitely have protected her from fire.
Large cannons were set to protect her.
The largest of the forts, at over 100 acres, Ft. Charlotte also has a dry moat around her. This is a view of just the east end of the fort.
Here is the lighthouse on the point near Ft. Charlotte.
The weather looks promising for a run tomorrow from here to the northern part of the Exumas, probably to Shroud Cay. Hopefully we'll be able to leave around 10-ish in the morning!
It has been a lot of fun staying here at the marina and exploring the island, but we are ready for some Out-Island life now.
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