What turned out to be our final stop onshore was the Ecotrek to the Bamboo Falls. It’s not on Google Maps but it’s close to the Seven Sisters Waterfalls in the Grand Etang National Park. We started off with the usual collection by our tour guides, and then we were[…]
We’re not from Australia, but were still a little nervous about swimming with creatures that had killed Steve Irwin. We needn’t have worried – as our briefings explained, these were different animals and unless we applied force onto the barb, it was physically impossible for the stingrays to harm us.[…]
I had seen images of planes landing mere metres above the heads of beach goers on social media and in the news, so I was fascinated to get the opportunity to go and see Maho Beach itself. We’d been one of the first cruises operational after the Covid-19 restrictions had[…]
Our first stop and our first excursion. We milled around with all the other tour passengers before being divided up into bus loads and heading out of the port area. We were heading towards the Vermont Nature Trails, the map not really reflecting the altitude and ruggedness of the roads.[…]
The original name for the island was actual St Christopher’s Island, but a common shortening of Christopher was Kitt, so in the 17th Century it evolved into St Kitts Island, or just St Kitts. Like a lot of the other Caribbean islands, sugar was grown in plantations and on St[…]
As the world began to get back to normal after Covid, we decided to have a look at some of the islands of the Caribbean, leaving the port of Bridgetown in Barbados on the Grandeur of the Seas. Checking in required us to travel 200m by bus from the terminal[…]
Animal Flower Cave Starting off at the northern most point of the island is the Animal Flower Cave, so called because the initial discoverers of the sea-anemones which resided in the pools thought that they were flowers. But when they touched them and the “flowers” reacted, they changed their opinion![…]