Trish Berry, January 7, 2025
If it is a sunny day, you can’t stay out in the sun the whole day. The sand gets hot, will burn the bottom of your feet or cause you to look like you are hopping over hot coals. Wear shoes. Wear sunscreen and reapply when needed. when you are on Perfect Day at Coco Cay.
Crew members from the ship go to the cay and cook fresh lunch for us. Vegetarian foods are available, along with the meat and potato type foods. Crew members live on the island at all times. This is a safety factor for the island as well as for maintenance of the rides and grounds. Royal Caribbean has left as much of the local flora as possible so there are tropical trees and bushes everywhere. These need to be clipped so the tram can take you around to various places on the island.
One time when we were docked at Coco Cay on the Wonder of the Seas and were staying in a balcony room, we woke and were a little disappointed that sunshine wasn’t coming around the edges of the curtains. That meant a rainy day. But it wasn’t. When we pulled back the curtains we saw the largest ship at that time, ‘The Icon of the Seas,’ parked beside us. It was so large that it blocked out the sunshine. That was the maiden voyage for Icon. It only had crew members on board, along with some of the managers of RCCL and the managers’ families. I heard one little girl say to her father in passing, “Daddy, you really have a great job.” She was coming off the Icon of the Seas where the elite employees of RCCL were sailing. Yes, they have a great job.
Coco Cay has beautiful sand sculptures.
(This is an aside from cruising, but I wanted to tell you about it. Any spare pocket change you have, toss it in a dish and save it for your local SPCA, that great foundation that takes care of unwanted, needy animals. They always need old sheets, towels, and blankets. Their linens are laundered so often that they wear out. The animals need the warmth. You can find these at garage sales, thrift stores and estate sales.
I make cat toys filled with stuffing and catnip and donate them to my local SPCA, a place of love and tenderness for animals, but which always needs funds and necessary items to house, feed and care for the animals. They do a wonderful job and are a no-kill facility.
We all love animals. Dogs, cats, mules, pigs. I love eagles, the American national bird. I watch numerous eagle nests that have video cameras in place. You can see the laying of eggs, the little eaglets breaking through the shell, the mother and father feeding and caring for the eaglets until they are ready to fledge. Nature is hard. Rips your heart out at times, but it makes your heart grow big at other times.
Anything you can do to help the animals of the world do it. It doesn’t have to be a big gesture. Dropping a few cans of dog food or cat food in your shopping cart and then taking to the SPCA helps. Any. Little. Thing. You. Do. Helps. Above is a photo of me with a kitty toy that I made, and the kitty that liked it.)
Thanks for reading. I hope you are sailing and having fun, and I know you are loving your pets.
Trish
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