Today was a super early wake up time I set the alarm for 6:30, ran up to the Buffet and got some oatmeal and half a cup of coffee, and then we were off on our tour. Well, not exactly off on our tour, but we rode through the port area to the duty-free area and now we’re on the bus heading for the snorkeling location.
We are now officially on our way leaving the port area and can see some nice blue water in the distance.
There are three or four other ships in Port with us today so I expect all the locations were visiting to be crowded.
We booked another ships tour today. It was a catamaran, and it was supposed to take us to a turtle snorkel, as well as snorkeling over two different racks that were sunk to start coral reefs and then the third stop was supposed to be a swim stop but the water was far too rough for us to actually go to the beach.
The first stop was the turtle snorkel. Personally, I thought it was terrible, but with hundreds of people in the water it was just so churned up there was no visibility. Some people stated that they did see turtles however, the only time I saw a turtle was from the little boat.
After that, we really only went about 100 feet away and there were two wrecks visible they were sunk intentionally as I stated above to start a reef. However, they were close enough to the surface that you could swim pretty close to them, and they were already starting to grow corals. I was able to see really well here and was trying really hard to use my underwater camera. Well, my phone in a waterproof case. Unfortunately I could not get the button to push to take a picture so I’m definitely looking into some thing different without having to buy a whole new underwater camera. I have one, but it’s so old that the zoom just isn’t great.
After the snorkeling was finished, we were supposed to go to the beach, but did not. Instead, we took a really long, long ride up and down the coast of Barbados. The rum punch was flowing, but after yesterday’s experience, I had nothing L O L.
They even had the good rum on board here they had mount gay rum, and all kinds of other mixtures to go with it plus beer. So, there was a lot of drinking going on, and a lot of time to do it. I was actually pretty bored towards the end maybe because I wasn’t drinking ha!!!
We got back on board the ship pretty early it wasn’t even 1230 but all aboard was at 3:30 and quite honestly I would not have wanted to leave the port area. The area near the port looked very industrial and not a good place to go. It just did not look safe.
They did, however, have a large duty-free area to shop at you actually had to pass through it to get to the shuttles back to the ship. The ship is docked in a very commercial Port, not appealing whatsoever.
We got back on board despite the early time because we were starving and the only thing they had on that catamaran was rum L O L
We had a little bit of lunch at the international Café, which was really good and I think somewhat of a secret we found out about it from a guy getting on the elevator that had this like Melty, ham and cheese on a croissant. Oh, Yum! After we ditched our swimsuits, etc. we met down there and had a little bit of lunch I had a Panini of some sort and honestly there was too much meat and if there is such a thing lol but it was good.
After lunch, we went back to our cabins and then met up later on the Lido for a couple of drinks, and to watch the sunset.
We are going to try to get into dinner a little earlier tonight so we can get to the casino earlier and then hopefully we won’t be out as late as we were other nights!
We have two sea days in a row, and then we are back in Ft. Lauderdale
The time has just flown by. We’ve been having a fabulous time. Will be sorry to go home except I miss a certain person quite a bit.
Good night from the lido deck!
jilly
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