Caribbean Princess
Travel Blogs from St. Maarten/St. Martin
Cruising the Caribbean (Pt 2)
... then made our way to the beach to watch the planes. I had the map, and as I can't read maps, (it
wasn't a very good one anyway), we took a while to find the beach. As always I got the blame when Mike ended up on a no through road, after he decided to take a short cut, on a dirt road
(does this sound familiar Steve M.) just so he could show dad, he knew where he was going. Wow, am I glad we have a GPS for when we are in ...
Princess Juliana awaits
... then depart in stream.
BigBoy Granite in the B763 hit the tarmac first followed by Picasso, Maddog and Axe. Granite was quite comfortable at 8900FT left but Axe must have had a few worries about his 7000FT remaining.
Still we hit the skies and headed for Phillipsburg.
Some great scenery on departure and then we all settled into what approaches etc etc with the usual rubbish from Maddog ...
And finally we’re up and running again
... we had really hoped to miss. No such luck that day. And I also discovered that they can talk about
nothing, and I really mean nothing for quite a long time as well. So we walked round checking out the contestants tethered to trees and eating anything they could get to. Hope you like the
pictures, especially the one of the Goat with a for sale sign round it’s neck, he was one of last year’s winners, hoping to avoid the pot!
And suddenly, the ...
Don't stop me now! We're having such a good time.
... food to the island..... or something like that. Any idea can be turned into a great day here. The idea is to bring in a big ...
Day 5 - St Maarten
... says, "I just received a call and the boat is having mechanical problems. I'm sorry, but the tour is cancelled." Holy ****...two cancelled excursions in one day? It's now 1:30pm and we haven't done anything on the island yet!
So we head back into the ship, grab our swimming stuff, and head out on St Maarten. They have to have a beach somewhere, right? Nope that was cancelled too. Haha, just kidding. We boarded ...
Location
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Free parking