The trip: awesome. Aruba was beautiful, safe, and we had tons of fun snorkelling. Curacao, we took a hair raising ride on the local bus to the beach. $1 each, in a speeding minivan with no seatbelts. Grand Turk was beautiful, but you could still see evidence of the hurricane that hit a few months back. We followed our tourbook to the local beach for 'the best snorkelling on the island' but saw nothing. I think the coral was wiped out by the storm. Eh, the beach was still nice and we had it all to ourselves, basically (all of the passengers stayed at the terminal, which contains a ridiculously huge and overpriced Margaritaville).
Puerto Rico was interesting, we checked out an old fort and Denise got starstruck by Johnny Depp, who was in town shooting a movie. We also scored a bottle of Dom Perignon in the duty free for $99.
In St. Maarten we went to the nude beach (no, we didn't bare all...) and the trip started and ended with a stop at Half Moon Cay, Bahamas, which is a private island owned by the cruiseline. We've been there before, and it didn't disappoint - a slice of heaven on earth for sure.
To be honest, I didn't take a whole lotta pictures but here are a few good ones:
Snorkelling (and jumping) off a pirate ship in Aruba:
The view of Grand Turk from the ship:
San Juan, Puerto Rico (taken from Fort San Cristobal in the old city):
And the Fort itself:
Our darling waiter, Nur:
The view of our ship from the private island in the Bahamas:
And a whole pile of shots of South Beach (we stayed at the Beacon Hotel):
Actually, I think South Beach was one of my favourite parts of the trip. The art deco architecture is really cool and the vibe is relaxed, healthy and happy. I'd love to go back for a longer trip (we just stayed for one night at the end of the cruise before flying home).
*Edited to add, sorry some of the pictures are showing up off centre/weird. Blogger is pissing me off and I have fiddled with it enough for one night.
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