{"id":16206,"date":"2026-07-17T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16206"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:39:37","slug":"msc2-day-3-ocean-cay-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/17\/msc2-day-3-ocean-cay-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"MSC2 Day 3: Ocean Cay, Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I visited Ocean Cay back in 2020<\/a>, with Jett and her sisters – her last cruise. I was impressed with it. Nice beaches, a scenic lighthouse. So when I saw that this short cruise on the Seaside <\/em>included an overnight stay at Ocean Cay that became a major factor in my decision to book this cruise for Marlene’s birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marlene bathing at Ocean Cay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We dawdled in the morning and didn’t set foot on the island until after noon. We visited the shops (Marlene had to check them all out). The very first shop had a display of snorkeling fins. Very nice rubber fins with a price of $42. Not outrageous for cruise pricing. But there was a “50% off” sign above the display. So I asked the clerk if the $42 was the before-half-off price or the after-half-off price. It was her first day in the shop and wasn’t sure, so she ran a price check. I was hoping for $21. Nope. The price was $18.06. How did half of $42 come out as $18.06? I have no idea, but it was a gift horse and I wasn’t going to check his teeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we didn’t get the fins because there were no goggles available. Supposedly there was a shop on North Island – the most distant part of Ocean Cay – that sold them so we went looking. We made it to the island – about a half mile walk – and found no shop. But we did find a lovely beach and some inviting, crystal-clear water. So we took a dip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The water was heavenly. We stayed in longer than we should have without sunscreen. But we were rewarded with a sighting of a sting ray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither of us had been in the ocean in several years. It was very nice. We had our metal cups with rum-and-coke which we drank while we luxuriated. A very pleasant hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time we got back to the island buffet it had closed. But we went back to the ship and found something to eat so we staved off starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We bought 2 sets of fins on our way back to the ship with the intent of using them the next day. Even without goggles they would be fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read while Marlene played the slots. Finished my book – a review soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had another very good dinner. We didn’t go ashore after dinner, which I regret. A bonfire with live music was the attraction. How many times are there on-shore activities at night on a cruise? It’s pretty rare. We did wander the ship a bit and I got some mediocre night shots of Ocean Cay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theresa and Thomas at dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ocean Cay at night from the Seaside<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We played cards again at the midnight buffet and I won 2 of 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I visited Ocean Cay back in 2020, with Jett and her sisters – her last cruise. I was impressed with it. Nice beaches, a scenic lighthouse. So when I saw that this short cruise on the Seaside included an overnight stay at Ocean Cay that became a major factor in my decision to book this … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[155,114,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahamas-places","category-cruise","category-msc2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4do","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16211,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206\/revisions\/16211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}