uh it's one well it's two o'clock now they did quit raining outside so i think
to be safe i'm gonna leave my big camera here and switch over to my iphone and go on outside
and try to get some footage of ocean k so i can at least show you guys a little bit of
what's out there and what to expect if you come so let's go ahead down now and get off the ship
and check out a little bit of ocean k and uh you know what there is to do here so let's go
do that now came out to deck 14 to get a look of the island quite a few folks out there that have
rented umbrellas and are out in the water but this is it you can see uh the lighthouse right there
way over here on the left the lighthouse uh sweeping all the way back there toward the back
of the island looks like there's more beaches like a lagoon area there's some housing over
here probably for the employees who live here and maintain the island some little houses and things
over here little shops most likely in these little buildings so yeah this is pretty much the extent
of uh ocean cave there's some docks over there for other boats that come in and like a little bay for
them the water is incredibly blue of course you're here in the bahamas where they're known for their
very very blue waters we're actually just i think 15 miles south of bimini so not far away at all
from the coast of florida and miami is just to our west so we only traveled about 200 nautical
miles from port canaveral to get here so not a not a huge cruise in terms of miles traveled this trip
but this is uh msc's ocean k marine reserve
now we've made it off the ship back here and a very short walk and you're in sort
of the square i guess a little uh town square i guess you could call it the island square um
you can go over that way i think to get to the beach we're gonna go check out the little village
and see what kind of shops they have and just try to check out the majority of ocean k today
and see what there is to see here what the big deal is and we'll determine by the end
of the day if you should come visit here looks like this is the meeting point for
the excursions you can book they do have msc does offer excursions you can book for ms i'm sorry for
ocean k and it looks like this is the meeting area for those you see this wave runner sign up in the
tree that looks like one of the excursions it's probably where they stand and wave the
signs so if you do book an excursion for ocean k it's like that we're going to meet your guide
so these first two shops here the one on the left there in the pink that is the visitor
center shop and then the one here uh right here is the msc ocean k msc shop so i think these are
where you can get msc branded merchandise probably probably that say ocean k because this is probably
one of the only places you can get ocean k branded merchandise you can order it online or anything so
it's one of the incentives i guess of shopping here on the island is that you can get merchandise
you can't necessarily buy anywhere else and from what i understand if you have an internet package
through the ship that internet package can be used here they do have wi-fi routers all
around the island you can use that here so like what royal does over at perfect day at coco k uh
also if you have a drink package on board that is applicable here on the island as well you can use
your drink package on ocean k so if you purchase a drink package or maybe like my favorites included
you can enjoy the drinks here on the shore just like you can on the ship so two things to remember
that you take advantage of all your benefits that you get with your cruise even when you're on shore
here at ocean k so another shop here this one the bahamas shop handmade in the bahamas so it looks
like this is where you can get you know gifts that made in the bahamas unique to the bahamas
not necessarily msc branded or anything but just general guests that you might want to get and take
back home to folks there's another ocean case souvenir shop over here with ocean k branded
merchandise and then here is the beach shack this is a food truck that they have located here on the
island they have some tables set up i do believe this is additional purchase that you do have to
pay i don't think this is free stuff i could be wrong i know there's a couple of eateries around
the island but at any rate this is closed today probably because the rain
so um we don't have to worry about if we have to pay for it or not because we're not getting
food um so let's see here here's a sign for us so it looks like there's a spot ocean k
there's a bar back this fast back behind us seekers looks like to be an eatery back that way
um smiling fish north island so here's a map showing olive ocean k and we're currently here
at the red star just got off the ship we walked right down the main drag here
um so we're sort of headed toward this back area i don't know how far we'll make it i don't know if i
want to walk all the way back here because this is like the spa there's also a nature area so i
don't know maybe we'll make it back there there's also the lagoon here north beach bimini beach
i think let's see the yacht club that's down here the yacht club is for those guests only that are
staying are part of the msc yacht club so that's an exclusive area of ocean k just for those guests
there's also sunset beach here on this side of the island then the lighthouse which is over
here just north of where the ship is and um so yeah that's just a quick overview of ocean k
this here is the smiling fish ice cream parlor looks like they also have some coffee
so here at the smiling fish it is an ice cream parlor here on the island
that you can pay it's an additional fee to get ice cream
they have a smiling fish cone a waffle cone a cup you can choose the different types of soft serve
and toppings so over here is seekers it's a food court area but it looks like they're closing i
know that a lot of the eateries are only open a couple or a few hours a day probably depending on
how many folks are here and how many people they have to feed imagine this is probably the free
eatery where you can come by a buffet or they probably have like hamburgers and hot dogs and
things like that but they have some tables here you can set up some umbrellas you can set under
back over there is another little lagoon they've got some uh looks like little uh swim up uh
barges i guess not really a barge little platforms that you can swim up to and jump off of out there
again probably given that it's a a nice day and not a day like today this is actually called
seekers cove though so uh seekers family cove over here i think you can rent like body mats and
things like that they've got all manner of beach rentals so a lot of different activities that you
can get into here they do have a trolley and i've almost been hit by a couple of them so
if you get down here and don't want to walk all the way back it's an option here's a couple more
of the beach shacks so i'm assuming that these are probably free eateries since
they have them so readily available all around the island plenty of places to sit
i think umbrellas you have to rent they put a piece of paper in my stateroom last night saying
you know here's all the things available for rent and beach umbrellas were one of those things so
i don't think you can just grab an umbrella here i think you have to pay for it okay so here's the
seafood shack that i was looking for that i'd read about and it is additional cost you can
see the menu there they have a lobster grilled cheese and y'all when i tell you i was looking
forward to eating that but it's closed they also have a grilled octopus salad lobster bacon roll
fried calamari they have other salads and ceviche but this is additional cost
this isn't one of the free but it looks like one of the free ones because it says beach shack like
the other ones do the only thing denoting it is that sign there in the front saying seafood shack
do
all right so an interesting fact that i learned about ocean k thanks to the little pamphlet
that they put in my room this morning it's not a natural island this island was actually created
by the dredging that they did around this part of the bahamas you got bemini really close by
so back in the 60s they did a lot of dredging and they sort of piled up the material the rocks the
sand here it created this island you saw earlier when we were up on the deck of the ship you could
see the whole island it's not a very big island at all but it's also not a natural island so that's
interesting uh as far as how i feel about it i haven't been here that long i feel like if
it were a perfectly sunny day or even sunny at all this would be amazing uh i will be like all
about this you know i would find a lot of value and like hanging out on the beach the water's
gonna be so blue when the sun's out uh but because it's so like overcast it's so gray and it's rainy
um i think that sort of literally clouds my judgment just a little bit so um i will say
it's not on par with perfect at coco k i think that royal caribbean has the private island
game on lock with their island i haven't been to disney's island so i can't compare to that
uh but i've been the perfect day and i'm actually going to go there again a couple times next year
so make sure you go down below and subscribe and i'll bring you lots of perfect day at coco
k content early next year this is great like you know there's a lot of stuff to do there's
a lot of places to get in the water there's a lot of places to hang out on the beach i
only see area for one ship to be docked so i think they can actually only dock one msc
vessel here at a time so that means the island is not going to be overrun and overcrowded with
people even if the ship's at full capacity it's just going to be one ship full of people so
i think that this is a great place it's a great stop if you book an msc itinerary with this
stop ocean k on it i think you're going to be very pleased i think most of their stops now
include this uh at least once on the itinerary it's so close we're literally just off the coast
of miami uh just you know under like 60 miles away so uh yeah it's a cool place i like how
they've incorporated a lot of restaurants around the island there's a lot of bars around the island
like i said there's a lot of places to get in the water there's a lot of places to see the ship
uh they're shopping so there's a little bit of something for everybody this is a perfect
beach day and i will compare this i think a a good comparison to this if you are loyal
carnival cruisers out there which thank you for watching i know a lot of you watch this channel
uh it's a lot like half moon key or half moon k over in the bahamas over on the other side of the
bahamas it's very comparable to that because it's just a lot of beach area there's a place to eat
uh there's some shops so it's a lot like half moon k i wouldn't compare it to perfect day at coco k
though because there's no comparison hands down perfect day would win so yeah that's my thoughts
just walking around the island here for the past 30 minutes or so and everything i've seen like i
said i wish it was warmer i wish i could actually get out in the water and enjoy a little bit more
but unfortunately the conditions being as they are today and also the condition that i forgot my like
swimming trunks and flip-flops at home uh because i packed way too quickly for this trip um you just
can't get in the water this trip and know what i want to with it being this cloudy i'm really
enjoying walking around i'm gonna we're gonna see more of it there's more to see but just wanted to
give you my early thoughts on the place look at that fish y'all that's a long fish he is swimming
there's nobody around to bother him so this area up here is the
north beach and y'all look how beautiful that water is so crystal clear and blue
if it were sunny it would be just perfect
look at me in my tennis shoes at the beach how disgraceful
doing what it takes to get y'all only the best footage even if i'm in tennis shoes getting
sandy feet well i guess i should have studied that map just a little bit better because back
here is the north beach and i thought i could walk all the way around over to the lighthouse
which is back over that way um but i cannot because there's water here so i can either swim
or go all the way back around and since i didn't bring any swimming clothes i guess
i'm walking all the way back around so it shows what good attention i paid to that
map i was showing you earlier so we finally made it walked all the way from the north beach all
the way around here to the lighthouse which is right back here and the lighthouse is actually
going to be the center point of a lighthouse light show uh later tonight i think that's at 10 p.m
we have to be back on board by 11 or 11 30 i think but i think folks can come out on the
beach or or what not and watch the light show so maybe we'll try to check that out and get some
footage of that to put in the video here a little bit later uh that i didn't want to mention i see
that the most people i've seen on any beach is this beach which is right here just off the ship
i know it looks like the most convenient beach to get to if you're just getting off the ship
just come to this beach it's beautiful but there are better beaches i think around the island so
maybe walk a little bit to get to a better beach uh one more bar here on the island there is the
lighthouse bar which is right here at the base of the lighthouse but yeah other than that i think
we've just about covered the entire uh ocean k the the island here and showed you just about
everything that there is to see so i'm just gonna meander about a bit and get back on the ship but
yeah we'll see the the light show later hopefully it'll not be raining it's like the bar area it's
close for refurbishments and repairs right now but this is where it is right here at the bottom
base of the lighthouse you can actually see out there the the guide navigational buoys right out
there so you can see how the ship has to come right down the way for quite a good ways there
you