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| At the falls |
We started the day off the ship at the shops that were built for the cruise ships right at the end of the pier. Then when we went into the city, we hired a private guide to take us on a tour of the country.
We stopped at a very old fort and then went up into the rain forest to view a very beautiful waterfall. Along the way, our guide stopped and explained different types of plants to us – it was quite an education.
The people on the island live a very long life due to the fact that they eat mostly locally grown fruit and vegetables and fish that have been caught from the seas around the island.
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| The ship over shadows the town |
The tour ended at a beautiful beach with great white sand; however for the next two hours, the sun hardly was out; but, we had fun. That is two days in a row when we went to the beach the sun was behind clouds – no good for tanning!!
Then we were picked up and taken back to the pier where we went into town and shopped at the local market for a little bit.
The show was before dinner this time and the musician was a piano player by the name of Antonio Salci and wow was he good. He was backed by a 7 piece orca straw and they put on quite a show.
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| Making Barb a new bowl |
Then it was onto dinner for another great dinner and we spent most of the night talking about how each of us had met and we really laughed a lot. Then it was the casino and finally to bed. We don’t get a lot of sleep on the cruise but it sure is fun. We are not doing as well as we would like in the casino, but it is a free cruise so that is not too bad, hopefully the next couple of days will bring good news from the casino.
Tomorrow will be Tobago, our last stop before heading back to San Juan.
