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Caribbean Cruise

This trip was all about the southern Caribbean, checking out the beaches and celebrating my 35th birthday [one of the few milestone birthdays left for me, but more on that another day]. Our trip took us to Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Antigua, St. Lucia and Barbados. We visited some pretty nice beaches and here's the run down:

Magens Bay, St. Thomas - 1 mile of white sand and beautiful water. Pretty busy with visitors but worth the stop to enjoy a very calm bay. Also on our ride back to the ship we stopped to take pictures of the both Magens Bay and the Charlotte Amalie Harbor and both views were spectacular.

Orient Bay, St. Maarten - Great beach for easy body surfing. Unfortunately we only had 1 hour here but I enjoyed a full hour of wave riding. Note: we did not see any "naturalist" at this clothing optional beach.

Miller's By The Sea Beach, Antigua - This was the first time we just jumped in a cab and went to the beach on our cruise. This beach was recommended by our waiter it is was a really great secluded beach. Not more than 25 people there and we really enjoyed the sun and calm waters and it was a nice change from Magens and Orient Bay which were both pretty busy.

Rodney Beach, St. Lucia - This was another of our waiters recommended beaches and again he picked a nice beach. Lisa did not go in the water, which was so refreshing, because the waves were crashing about 2 feet from the shore and they sounded like thunder when the broke. I have to admit some were quite large, about 5 feet high, but since they broke so close it was easy to get past them to just float in the water. It turned out to be a great reading day at the beach.

The Boatyard, Barbados - This was our favorite place onto he whole trip. Ok so The Boatyard is a beach with a bar so what's not to like but really it had the nicest and whitest sand and the most inviting turquoise water we had seen on the cruise. The rope swing off the pier, ocean trampolines, and the ice-berg climb & slide were also a blast. Lisa said it reminded her of a [really big] swimming pool, that's how clear the water was.

Lisa pulled a "Hawaii" and wouldn't get out of the water on our last day but I am so proud that she went off the rope swing several times, swam out to the trampoline and was having fun in the water even though it was over her head!

Also on our cruise we met some very nice people, as always, and in particular was a family from Montreal. Garry turned out to be a musician so we encouraged him to sing at both Rock-A-Rokie [Karaoke with a live band] and Karaoke. He made it to the finals of Idol Karaoke on our final night but unfortunately he did not win. He was robbed because he was by far the best singer there but poor song choice lead to coming in second. Anyway Garry and family are now back in Montreal and he has returned to his rocking ways with the band Loose Change.

All in all it was a great trip which we came home from with nice tans, great memories, some nice pictures and Lisa finally got her birthstone ring/necklace she was always wanted. Wait a minute, wasn't it my birthday?

posted by TheWino @ 10:08 AM