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Posted on February 12, 2019 by Eric

The Kosmos Travel Log is a place for Christi, Eric, and Keith to share and document our travel stories. See About.

Christi and Eric circumnavigated the globe aboard Kosmos from 2007-2009. The circumnavigation posts begin here. There are about 800 posts from the trip!

Christi, Eric, and Keith took Kosmos on an eight month trip to the Sea of Cortez from July 2022 to March 2023 (about 130 posts). Keith did updates in both English and French.

After various upgrades and maintenance in San Diego from 2023 to Dec 2024: We’ve Started Another Cruising Adventure!

Below are links to some good places to find specific types of information. In addition to boat travel stores, there are also posts on various other topics, including preparing for travels via boat, and stories about assorted land travels.

Welcome to Palm Cay Marina, New Providence Island, Bahamas

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Eric

On Thursday, April 24 — We didn’t sleep well because a storm hit in the wee hours of the morning that woke us up. We did manage to go back to sleep, but it was still raining pretty hard when we got up for the day. We were pleased at our luck — the days we were in the park, the weather had been nice, and it turned icky on the day we were leaving.

The marina check out time was at 1100. Last night, we’d talked about possibly going back into the resort this morning to check out some of the places that we’d missed. Even if the weather had been nice, Keith and Christi woke feeling like they simply could not do any more walking. They were glad to be leaving.

Eric, on the other hand, was feeling full of energy as a result of anxiety. After that nightmare ride into Atlantis on Monday, he was anxious about leaving. Our destination was a marina on the southeast side of New Providence Island (the purple dot on the map below), and it had a narrow entrance channel with a couple of slight turns. He was having anxiety about navigating that channel.

We untied from the dock at 1045. We were pleased to see that traffic on the water was light. We realized that Monday had been the end of a holiday weekend — no wonder it had been so crazy! As a general rule, we try not to take Kosmos out on holiday weekends exactly because that is when it’s crowded with drunks who have no clue what they were doing.

We only made 4 knots in channel at 1650 RPM because the wind and current were both against us. We noted that the properties lining the water of Paradise Island looked very high end, most with private docks.

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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 3

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Eric

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 — We arrived at the park at 0930 so we could go on The Serpent Slide before the rest of the rides opened. We exited the ride right at 1000 and went straight to the river just as it opened. Today, the waves from the wave machine were noticeably bigger, there were a lot more breaking waves, and the ride moved faster. A couple of days ago, Christi had overheard a patron complaining to a lifeguard about the wave machine being turned down. The lifeguard had said there’d been too many accidents. The patron had said he understood why Atlantis needed to do that since, over the last few weeks, the Bahamas had been full of drunk, stupid 18 year old high school seniors on their spring breaks (the legal drinking age in the Bahamas is 18). We were wondering if Atlantis felt comfortable turning up the wave machine now that most spring breaks were over.

At 1230, we started scoping out food options. One of the employees told us that the round building across the lagoon from Shake Shack was a Mexican restaurant called Crocodilo. Since Mexican food was our favorite, we were sold!

From the waterslides, we walked over one of the lagoon bridges to the back the lagoon/ocean. Just to give you a sense of how big the resort was, the first shot was looking back at the main hotel from just beyond the bridge, and the second photo was of the restaurant, taken from the bridge.

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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 2, Part 2

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Eric

continued… The Mayan Temple four waterslides, and two went through a shark tank.

If you look carefully, you can see the sharks in the tank. The rectangular tube on the left was an inner tube ride called The Serpent Slide, the one on the right was called Leap of Faith and did not have an inner tube. Eric and Keith wanted to do the Leap of Faith first. Christi opted not to go. It was a straight drop down into the shark tank, and they moved through the tank extremely quickly.

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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 2, Part 1

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Eric

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – Today we were all wearing water shoes — yesterday, we’d been in flip-flops and we realized water shoes were a better choice for the park. According to the material we’d been given at the marina office, the pools and beaches opened at 0900, but the waterslides and Rapid River didn’t open until 1000. Knowing that it would take a half-hour to get to the waterpark, at 0925, we called for a golf cart to pick us up.

When the golf cart dropped us off, we couldn’t believe how long the line was to buy tickets. We were happy to be by-passing that line! We joined a mob of people all speed walking through the long stretch between the entrance and the waterpark itself.

Now that we’d scoped out the park, we’d formulated a strategy to maximize the number of rides we went on today: start at the river entrance (stop 1), exit the river at stop 7, which was where the entrance to the Power Tower was, and take our inner tubes with us to the Tower slides. The waterslides let out near stop 6, then we could get off again at stop 7 and do that loop over and over again until we’d had our fill of those inner tube rides.

As anticipated, we reached the rides around 0955. We were surprised to see that a waterslide at the Mayan Temple was already running, and looked like it had been for a while. The river had not opened yet, though, and we were one of the first ones on it.

This time, Eric and Christi got a two-person tube, and they stuck close to Keith.

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Atlantis Waterpark — Day 1

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Eric

continued... Now that we were finally inside the park, we wandered around, trying to find a towel kiosk. We did eventually find one at the far end of the park.

One of the many swimming pools in the water park

Once we got our wristbands, we decided that we wanted to ride the Rapid River first. According to the map, there were nine stops where one could get on and off the river. We went to the stop closest to the kiosk and realized that no one was getting off their inner tubes, which meant no inner tubes were available for us to get on. We realized we needed to go to the the river’s entrance, stop one, in order to get on.

We got a little lost trying to find the entrance to the river, but eventually found it. We each grabbed individual inner tubes. Eric and Keith raced down, while Christi just let the river push her along. The first half of the river was powered by a wave machine that made gentle swells that pushed the tubes along.

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