Stuart's Cove is an outstanding dive/snorkel operation, but ours was a 5 1/2 hour trip. We were with Holland America and booked Stuart's Cove snorkel trip thru the ship's shore excursion as "Snorkel Bahamas Adventure". Check with your cruise line to see who they use. Following is a brief summary of our snorkel trip (they offer dive and submarine trips, too):
Nassau: “Snorkel Bahamas Adventure†is a 5-½ hour trip operated by Stuart’s Cove.
The boat trip is @ three hours, and visits Schoolhouse Reef, the spectacular Golden Key Reef and finally a “swim with the sharks†at ‘The Wreck of the Bahama Mama’. I have never before witnessed such a number and variety of fish as at Golden Key. There are never-ending fish, large and small, singly and in large schools. The floor is decorated with huge, magnificent coral formations of all shapes and sizes. While there, a shark cruised past our group. He obviously thought this was his ocean and didn’t know, nor care, that we weren’t scheduled for a shark encounter until after Golden Key. Surprisingly, getting in with a dozen or so sharks is not frightening. I suspect we were too caught up with their grace and magnificence to be scared. The fact that the boat captain hadn’t lost a diver in twelve years was also encouraging. This is a five star, gold medallion, prime trip, not to be missed!
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