BABY BAY BEACH 2015

We have been to Baby Bay twice, on 2 different cruises, and this page will have both reviews in them.

We decided to go to Horseshoe Bay today, but the waves looked a little...well wavy.

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So, we headed over to Baby Bay beside Horseshoe.

We arrived and I was a little shocked to see that there really wasn't very many people in this area.

Before we could even get situated Sakari was already off and running into the water. I absolutely love the water and she loves it like me x10.

We picked a spot and put our things down in the sand and claimed our real estate for the day...which happened to be in the middle of that small beach and in the sun (which was odd for the hubby, he usually likes to find a shady spot).

I was off to explore a few of the nooks and crannies.

How's the water Sakari?

I was not in all the way at this point. Yes, the water was a little cool, but not too bad and I usually quickly get use to the water after a few minutes. However, Sakari decided it was time that I got fully use to the water and jumped in enough to completely cool me down....ugh, kids. I like to do it on my own time thank you. She decided it was time for me to get wet whether I was ready or not.

What a beautiful bird. There were several nest up in the rocks around the little bay.

We all headed into the water and explored for awhile. We snorkeled, but I have to say the water was all churned up so there really was no way to get any good pictures. I took several and they are all pretty crappy. There were some really huge parrot fish in the area (which is something I had read up on prior to coming, but I had heard a lot of people mention that you would find really huge ones over at Stonehole Beach during our walk from Warwick).

I climbed the rocks to take pictures and it was much easier to see the huge parrot fish from up there.

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They were seriously huge. Probably the biggest parrot fish I have ever seen before were here in Bermuda and this wouldn't be the only day we seen them this big. They just kept getting bigger and bigger.

The rocks in the area and super pointy and jagged. I did not know this and man it would be super easy to get cut up on them. I had to be extra careful since I'm so danger prone on vacations. The last thing I needed was to fall and break something. I got myself into an area along the edge and wasn't really sure how to get back out. So what happens in that case? You just jump off the rocks back into the water. Problem solved. Yea, I took the easy way down.

Like always, I'm always searching for the "neat little things" that people normally wouldn't think to take pictures of. The waves churning back and forth, the rocks in the water would fill up when the tide comes in and when it goes back out they would "drain".

After the hubby seen the fun I was having, he decided to adventure out on the rocks too.

"Hey, give me that camera and I'll take some pictures of you from up here"

Well if that wasn't a fake "I'm snorkeling pose" then I don't know what is...I look more like I'm water tanning.

Hubs decided he was going on up to see the view and I took pics as he made it up there.

Then the family started climbing as well....

​Sakari found something interesting over there by the rocks and spent a great deal of time there for some reason. I think she was finding small snails because she brought me a few.

Us girls decided to snorkel the entire area to see what we could find. Once again...crappy churned up water pics.

I honestly didn't find many interesting things in the area (as far as fish) other than the size of the parrot fish. We still had a lot of fun though.

I managed to find a huge snail and had to show Sakari that my snail was bigger than her snail (which happened to be about the size of a fingernail).

Kendra inspecting the snail and having the nerve to ask me if that was really a snail down inside it and if it was real. LOL She quickly found out the answer to her question while she was holding it that it suctioned to her hand and she let out a squeal and I caught it in a picture just in time as everyone was laughing at her over it. Tell me we weren't having a good time. Just look at those faces.

At this point we were getting a little bored with the area (and when I say "we" I mean Kendra & I because the guys are perfectly happy never having to move more than a few inches from their prime real estate any place we go). We decided that we would just sneak off to the other side of Horseshoe and explore.

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After our exploring over at Horseshoe Bay, the girls stayed over there for awhile and I walked back to Baby Bay. I wanted to climb the rocks and take pictures of the area.

The path leading up was a little tricky. It looked like someone chiseled out foot prints for people to walk up. I climbed them keeping safety in mind and talking it over in my mind about how I could NOT get hurt or fall or break something.

I made it to the top without incident. Looking down at baby bay and seeing the family at our real estate.

I spotted Sakari down there. There was an extremely nice little family that decided to adopt her today. She just hung out with them the rest of the day and they didn't seem to mind. Sakari is a big social bug and will talk to anyone and make friends with everyone.

The hubs looks a little hot and Billy was tanning his tats.

The views from up here were amazing. It's so weird to be down below and you are in your little area not realizing what's on the other side of the huge rocks that are protecting you. Once you are up on the rocks, you have a whole new perspective on things and it's an amazing feeling.

Looking over at Horseshoe Bay

I spotted the girls still over there riding the waves and playing in the water.

I yelled "Kendra" not expecting them to be able to hear me all the way down there plus with the sounds of the waves. She must have had bionic hearing and eyesight to spot where I was.

This area looked kind of neat from up here. It almost looked like an oil spill in the water or a rainbow. I know it was the rocks under the surface, but it was still kinda neat. Do you see it?

More pictures of the area...

I finally caught a few pictures of the Bermuda Long Tail Bird

Selfie time...

Time to head back down and I wasn't looking forward to it. I knew that going down was going to be a lot harder than going up. I watched as people tried to climb down as I was waiting my turn to go up the path. They were hanging onto anything around them and sliding. Just great.

It looks easy enough, until you are actually doing it. They get smaller and they are not a flat surface.

I had made it back and all was good. 

When Sakari seen me, she immediately wanted me to come snorkel with her. I was hot from being up on the rock so out we went.

As we were in the water a guy (teenager) was standing on the other side of this rock wall. He tells me "There's a really neat little "pool like" area back here with tons of little fish, you should come check it out". I ask him how to get back there and he pointed in the direction I needed to go. Sakari and I headed that way, which required us to basically climb up on a slippery rock that was IN the water, down into the little area that was also slippery, holding on to the jagged rocks, and then at one point going down the path you had to step down into this open rock area that was hard to determine how deep it was...all while trying to hold the hand and balance a munchkin and myself. NOT easy and I'm now wondering what this guy got me in to. I just wanted to turn around and go back and I ask Sakari several times if she wanted to go back. She encouraged me to keep going and keep going we did.

We finally made it to this area and while it was "cute", it definitely wasn't worth the hassle of getting there. Thanks dude.

I told Sakari this was not safe and I didn't feel safe being here. She begged to at least go in the little "pool" before leaving and I lowered her in while trying to hang on to myself at the same time.

She came up with her trophy...another snail.  Can you tell the girl hasn't come out of the water yet today? Look at those wrinkled hands.

It was time to head back out down the slippery, rocky path. I was never more happy to get out of there!

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Back at the camp, the hubby went and got a hamburger and some fries. The fries were really yummy! Like seriously cooked crispy and yummy.

Since my last cruise, I came up with a plan to start bringing my own pop to the beaches with us and it worked out pretty well that time, so I figured why not do it again this time. I have a small soft cooler that we use and it holds about 6 cans in it. We have the room steward fill 2 zip lock baggies about 1/2 full and we place them around the cans. It works great and no leaky mess. When we are done with it, the cooler actually fold up and velcros flat. Score!!

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​From my research I knew that they sold cheeseburgers for $5.75, French Fries for $4.00 and their soda was $3.00. They also had things like hotdogs and chicken sandwiches and also an ice cream store there as well.

The birds must know that the fries there are awesome too. They sure were loving us and taking the fries. They didn't care how close they had to get. The hubby actually had a few of them take it right out of his hand and if you weren't looking, they didn't think twice about snatching your food and running.

Brayden also made some friends that day. Kendra, Billy and Brayden all decided to climb the rocks...only different rocks than what I had went up.

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​You can't take a picture of Kendra without her doing something silly.

Shortly after this, we decided to pack up and leave.

We had a great day at Horseshoe and Baby Bay.

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This is the second trip to Baby Bay Beach:

​Meanwhile, Baby Bay looked a little different this time. The water was up higher than last time and there was less beach front property to claim so late in the day. Where we sat last time was actually under water this time. We are definitely the kind of people that can lay a towel or blanket down and be perfectly happy without lounge chairs and that's exactly what we did.

I don't know what it is about this hill but all the kids like to climb on it.

We tried to snorkel, but there really wasn't much to see. All the parrot fish were gone and there were only a few fish over in the small drop off in the area above by the rocks. Maybe the hurricane whisk them all away? Or do they migrate somewhere else during the winter season? I was real disappointed and was hoping that tomorrow would bring a better snorkeling day.

You could tell the ocean was still a little upset from the hurricane a few days earlier. It was really churning still, but it made for some awesome waterfall pictures of the waves crashing over top of the rocks and pouring into Baby Bay.

All over the rocks there were snails and crabs crawling. We found 1 snail last time we were there and they were just all over the place here this time.

Everyone decided they wanted a bite to eat so the boys headed up to the snack shack and brought us food back. I did notice that the prices had changed since the last time we were there. They had actually went UP instead of down. You would think with it being the end of the season and not as many ships coming in that it would go down? Or do they still have the same amount of ships coming in at this point?

The fries were tasty just like last time and still for $4.50 for a basket of them I thought they were a good deal. They loaded the basket up and there were plenty to share. The hubby came back with a cheeseburger and said it was good. Kendra came back with chicken fingers and they did look yummy. I ended up sending the hubby back to get me some. However, I ended up with 1 less chicken finger than they come with. Oh well, I guess I would deal with it and eat when we get back to the ship (which I would do anyhow whether I got another chicken finger or not...just saying).

While we sat around and ate, Sakari decided the birds were hungry too and she was on a mission to get them to eat out of her hands.

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Obviously these birds are use to being fed because they are not afraid of you at all. They will come right up to you. She accomplished getting them to eat out of her hand and she was so excited.

Then Brayden happened....he came along and scared them away.

Once our bellies were full, the family decided they wanted to do some exploring again...on the other side by Baby Bay and off they went.

I handed the hubby one of my cameras and told him to get me some good pictures and off they all went.

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​It looked like they found some pretty neat places.

The hubs taking a picture of Kenny and Kenny taking a picture of the hubs sitting on a rock.

Although Kennys picture didn't turn out the greatest, it still showed the hubby sitting out on this ledge, which I'm glad I didn't have to witness.

I can't believe these guys were climbing all these rocks without shoes on. I at least had my shoes on when I did it.

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You could tell it was getting later in the day and the sun was going down.

Meanwhile, I'm down below taking pictures of it getting darker and trying out different settings on my camera.

I thought the hubby did a pretty good job taking pictures up there, other than the water spot which happens to me all the time. I may have to hire him.

It was getting late and we wanted to make sure we had enough time to walk up the hill and catch the bus, so we started packing up and getting ready to leave this paradise for the day.

The "newbies" wanted to go in the cave that we went to a few months ago over by Horseshoe Bay and Kendra led the way to show them.

They all came back saying the water was too high and with the slippery rocks, there was no way they were going to try to make it in there.

You could tell by this picture, the water was really up to the entrance, which is around on the other side of this huge rock.

At 5:05pm we headed up to the restrooms to shower, get dried off and change into dry clothes.

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When we got there, the mens restroom was closed. The girls went in to shower and get the sand off and the guys were pretty much forced to use some water at the foot wash station outside if they wanted to wash any sand off.

At 5:25pm, we started ascending up the hill toward the bus stop.

I did not see any of the $2.00 buses to take you up the hill, but everyone wanted to walk for some reason, so I guess that was ok. There were very limited taxi's sitting in the parking lot as well. Maybe because it was so late. I'm not sure.

Ok, this walk was long and strenuous for a fat girl like me. I was huffing and puffing and stopping along the way to "smell the flowers" or at least that was my excuse. It's quite the climb...meanwhile a jogger is jogging by me like this was a marathon. I hated him. Just saying...

I turned around to take a picture (just another excuse to stop for a minute) to show how far we had walked already. All the way down and around the corner is the parking lot. Beyond that was the restrooms. Whew!

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Only a little ways to go still and I think I can hear the cars up on the street going by.

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WHEW...we made it to the bus stop and were about the 3rd family in line at the front.

Later people would join us to wait. I'm just glad it was a little more civilized and people were actually forming a line instead of the chaos at the bus stop to get here.

Bus rules for dummies:

1) No eating on the bus

2) No drinking on the bus

3) No smoking on the bus

4) No bathing suits on the bus

5) No sweaty elephant toes on the bus

The plus side=we got on the bus. The negative side=there was no place to sit. We all had to stand. We were on the bus and moving at 6:17pm

It was a crazy ride back and very hard for me to hang on to the hand rope above while still trying to hang on to Sakari, who couldn't touch the ropes of course. I tried to do a stance with my legs far apart so that I wouldn't fall onto anyone when the driver slammed on his breaks. The thing I didn't understand was everyone that had seats had their hands right on the edges of the chair handle in front of them. This could have been a more appropriate place for us that were standing to hold onto. But no, they all had their hands on them. WHY???? You have a SEAT!!! It made it real rough I tell ya.

I felt so bad for Sakari, who was so tired and falling asleep standing up. At one point I put my beach bag down on the floor and told her to sit on it, which meant after awhile she was balled up and sliding onto the floor trying to sleep. Which also meant every time we stopped and there was anyone located behind us, I would have to wake her up to move. Poor baby. I felt so bad for her.

Little by little, people started to get off at various stops, but a majority of them were headed back to the dockyard.

I did manage to snag a seat after a guy sitting in it got up and said he wanted to stand. He stood up and held onto the hand ropes and I continued to look at him. The bus stopped, he didn't move. The bus stopped again, he was still standing. At that point I ask if he was going to sit back down or what and that's when he told me he "wanted" to stand. :eek: I guess he was looking for a little adventure to end his day. Well...then I'm taking that seat and putting my baby in my lap to sleep...and that's what I did.

We made it back to the bus stop and headed to the ship. It was dark out now of course (the sunset was a lot earlier than the last time we were here, which makes me not want to come back during this time of year) and it was 6:48pm when we made to the pier