We were excited to be going to Mystery Island as we'd never been here before and we had heard it was gorgeous. It certainly is gorgeous - we definitely would love to come back here again (and again). This is another tender port and everything was running smoothly today. If you weren't ready to get on a tender then don't get your tender ticket yet because as soon as you get your ticket your called to go downstairs to get onboard, no waiting around today.
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| The view from our cabin as they were using our tender again! Mystery Island is on the right. |
As we hadn't been here before we didn't know which island Mystery Island was (it was a mystery!). There is a large island and then a much, much smaller island which turned out to be Mystery Island. No-one lives on this island, it is tiny, but the people from the larger island (I'll have to find the name of it) come over and set up some markets for us cruisers.
We decided to be a bit fancy today so went to the Empire Dining Room for breakfast - we all preferred the buffet. The food was fine, well except for Mr 6's boiled eggs - they were hard, very hard but the waiter went and got some poached eggs and they were cooked just right! We did find the service was a bit slow. We're not sure if it's because we weren't regulars or if it's always like that. My mum and sister had to wait about 15mins to get hot water for the tea bags. We got the coffee and tea bags quite quickly so we're not sure why the hot water took so long. I also found the coffee wasn't as nice as the buffet coffee. Nevermind. We didn't have to cook or clean so it's always going to be better than doing it yourself! We didn't go back to the Empire for breakfast. We decided it was much better for dinner.
Up to the Lido to get our tender tickets and off we went, woohoo!
A quick 5 minute trip and we were at the absolutely beautiful Mystery Island! The water is so clear with a lot of fish swimming around the wharf. Like all stops you always get your photo taken by the Carnival photographers, this was the only photo we bought. It just typified our cruise, sun, sea, sand and smiles! The photos were $20ea.
Off to find a nice spot on the sand and dive into the gorgeous water. We didn't have any snorkel gear with us (next time) just goggles but these did us fine. The water was a little chilly at first but it didn't take long to warm up and enjoy being in the south pacific.
What's not to love.
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