Bahamas -A part of the world and a world of its own All surrounded by the bright blue sea.

There's a private island we go to every 3 days to set up a calypso band for the cruisers. I tend to go early and chill in the hammocks in the shade of the palm trees at the beach and watch what goes by. I've seen chickens running around wild with lizards, there's sharks and stingrays swimming through the waters and schools of flying fish. It's a pretty relaxed place with not too much going on apart from the beach, music and food so I like it a lot, it's being pimped out and turned into a floating theme park any day now in an attempt to attract the millennials to cruising, so I don't think I'll enjoy it quite so much then.
If it wasn't changing I'd have applied to work there, the islanders have a great life, 25 days a month they have ships visit, they bring guests ashore but they're usually gone again by 6pm, after that the guys pack down and lock things up, then they set up a campfire, play some guitar and have a few drinks, they have a telescope for star gazing, and they chill for the evening, theres only a small number of them that live in the beach huts on the island. The days without ships can be spent snorkeling, and hanging by the beach. Not a bad way to live at all, I described this to several of the musicians at dinner and none of them fancied the sound of it, so perhaps I'm just a hermit, but that sounds like the dream to me. Just enough work to keep you going and get by, spending time with people every so often, but plenty of time to yourself, and you have a beautiful way of life chilling with all the wild things. The only thing I wouldn't be down for is the threat of hurricane season, that's actually looming over us at the moment. I hear that if there's a hurricane in Miami we aren't allowed to dock and we need to stay at sea, so I hope we don't have to face that unexpectedly. It's all hearsay at the moment though, not the first thing on my mind chilling in these hammocks, just making the most of it while I can.




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