It was my wife's second time there, although the first time she was with a group of Q-tips that were afraid to wear their flowered swim suits and didn't go in the water. It had nothing to do with what I discovered.
That being rocks. And rocks. And more rocks. Gazillions of them. Not little rocks - big ones. And unless you wear your Wal-Mart steel toe work boots, you will spend the next two days dealing with your very sore feet. So bad in fact that it can and will ruin your cruise.
Cove Cay is not a beach like Clearwater Beach, FL. Clearwater has soft hot white sand and you can walk out into the Gulf never touching anything but the passing or floating sea weed. There are little shells, no rocks, and they will not hurt your feet. And the water is clearer than Coco Cay.
I recommend you get off the ship and take the "tender" to Coco Cay - have a light lunch - which is free - and then go back to the ship. It's an enjoyable short trip and the water is amazingly blue. Give you and your partner about an hour for the "excursion."
Spend the rest of your day, which is usually the last day of the cruise, poolside sampling one or two of the excellent Royal Caribbean specialty drinks. That's exactly what my wife and I did - then went back to our 6th floor stateroom and then went to an outstanding dinner.
For the record, I do have my own photos of Coco Cay and will post them in a day or so.
