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/ Aruba ?? Island of smiles & tourism. It’s the main industry here. Great beaches & diving here. The island has 112,000 people & is Dutch. The children go to school here till the age of 12. High schoolers are sent to the Netherlands for their secondary education. 500 children a year. The landscape is…

/ San Juan Puerto Rico. Stayed downtown near the convention center before our next cruise to the southern Caribbean. We got to explore the downtown convention area in Puerto Rico & also some of the vibrant street art.

/ Amber cove, Dominican Republic. Northern coast of Dominican Republic where the original Jurassic park was filmed. Lots of rum factories, coffee plantations, wild horses, cigar factories & amber museum. We decided to go see the summit of Mount Isabela de Torres. Where we rode the Caribbean’s only cable car for the scenic 2700 feet…

/ Grand Turk & Caicos. Population 3,720. Grand Turk is such a beautiful island. Caicos means string of islands. They look like they are the last string of islands in the Bahamas but they are actually an independent archipelago. Grand Turk had the clearest water yet we’ve seen & so many fish to snorkel &…

/ Key west Florida. The southernmost point in the USA. We actually ported in a navel intelligence base where we were told we couldn’t take any photos of the base. Those that wanted to leave the ship and go into town to explore were taken into town via open air tram. Once aboard the tram…

/ Cozumel Puerto Maya was a rainy day so we didn’t explore too much & did some shopping near the port instead. Kind of a lazy down day. We really wanted to take the water ferry south to an archeological word heritage site but the ocean swell due to the rain and wind would not…

/ Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island. We had a great visit to the Cayman turtle center & dolphin discovery. Leonard & I first visited the turtle center some 15 years ago when we came here with our oldest two children, Nicholas & Ashley while we were on board the Disney Cruise for the Make a Wish…

/ We arrived into Falmouth, Jamaica on February 25th, 2020, alongside another much larger cruise ship so the port and surrounding area was somewhat swamped with people pitching their handle and tour services. We decided to wander around town and in the port on our own & sample the local music, food & culture. We…

/ 1st stop Half Moon Cay, Bahamas ? unreal turquoise blue water. Spent a lazy day floating & swimming in the clear water of the soft white sand beach & had a BBQ. Pure bliss & relaxation?

/ We just boarded our first cruise of three in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, which will have us exploring 22 ports in the Caribbean over the next 30 days! This cruise is a two week itinerary on the Holland America Nieuw Amersterdam which will have us exploring the Bahamas, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Key West, Turks…