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cal plants and spotting exotic birds;
try to schedule a visit so the children
can watch the "marching flamingo"
show.
his was the very best vaca-
We also visited Coral World, where
tion of my whole entire
guests
descend below the ocean's sur-
life," said five-year-old
face to view tropical fish and coral,
Cydnie of our Big Red Boat
but I didn't find it as well maintained
cruise. Besides being fun, it permitted
as on previous visits. Israelis who
our family to visit Bahamian islands
developed the Hirt family's Coral
with moderate Jewish connections.
World
lived here for a while, but it has
Premier Cruise Lines offers three-
been
sold.
and four-night Bahamas itineraries,
The island's Jewish history dates
usually combined with a three- or
back to Jewish traders in the early
four-day stay at Orlando. Both routes
18th century; Moses Frank is docu-
stop at Nassau and Lucaya; the four-
mented
as attorney general and chief
nighter has an extra day at sea.
justice
of
the islands.
In Nassau, New Providence Island,
Later
Jewish
residents are buried in
the most well-known of the Bahamian
a
Sephardic
cemetery, locke
islands, a favorite activity
behind
high
walls near St.
hips
and
Cruise
s
(for grownups) is shopping
Matthew's
Church
at Lovers
re
craft
pleasu
among the many stores on
Lane and East Shirley Street.
fregu ent the
Bay Street (the Bahamas are
Old tombstones are largely
Bah amas.
a free port). It's within walk-
illegible, but one
ing distance of the cruise
for
Samuel
Henry Benjamin dates
dock.
from
1831.
A
Jewish
drug smuggler is
Cydnie loved visiting the Junkanoo
also
buried
there,
said
longtime resi-
Museum, where gigantic displays of
dent
and
former
Nassau
magistrate
vividly colored floats and costumes in
Ralph Seligman.
satin and feathers tickled her imagina-
Seligman, transplanted from
tion. On the street, parents and grand-
Ireland,
said no other Jews lived here
parents should be wary of having chil-
after
those
19th-century residents
dren's hair "beaded and braided," since
until
the
1920s,
with a later group
combs aren't always as clean as they
arriving
in
the
1960s
and '70s. He
might be.
said
that
the
late
Eustace
and Lillian
A short visit to Ardastra Gardens
Meyers, of the Jamaican Meyers rum
includes wandering among the tropi-

MOLLY AROST STAUB
Special to The Jewish News

