Had an early tour to Coral World to do the Semi-sub tour (fancy name for glass bottom boat). The Submarine tour I took the last time I was here is no longer offered. I was at coral world the last time, and not much has really changed, although the helmet dive, swim with the sea lions and semi-sub are all new.
The tour bus was an open air safari bus, and like many of the islands I have visited, the road signs are more of a suggestion, than a requirement to obey. They also drive on the left hand side, which completely floored all of the Americans, since it is part of the US. My only complaint is that they have removed the “holy shit handles” from the buses. When Aunt Deb and I were in Jamaica we learned about those, and these buses needed them too!!
The semi-sub was good, we saw many different types of fish and corals, as well as some stingrays and a small type of shark.
Had a brief tour of Coral World where we were able to see tortuses, sharks, stingrays birds and other wildlife.
Did a little shopping in their souvenier store as well before the bus ride back.
We opted not to stop down town Charlotte Amalie, as frankly we aren’t looking for jewellery or the harassment by the locals to buy crappy little souviners. We did however stop at a few shops at the pier, and picked up a new shirt for Matt.
Tonight is the Captain’s party for repeat passengers as well as the second formal night.
Our pics from the first formal were just ok, so we are hoping to have a few more taken tonight, although with the party and the new musical show, there may not be much time.
The captain’s party was VERY busy with quite the lineup to get in. Unfortunately this means that we didn’t really get to speak to the captain as we have in the past. We came to learn that this was actually the second of 2 repeaters parties that night as there are so many repeat passengers on board. In fact, 44% of the passengers were repeaters. The most travelled passenger has over 900 days at sea with Princess ... WOW!
We did go to the new musical number “Star Dust” which is “a walk down memory lane” for the blue hair passengers. Now, I like oldies music, but didn’t recognize many of these tunes. Actually it was a little disappointing. The dancing was great though, so it wasn’t an evening lost.
This is where I should mention that normally the greatest population on board is the “blue hair gang”, and although there are lots of those, I do have to say that it seems this is also a gay/lesbian/cripple (without sounding non PC or rude) cruise. Seriously, we have never seen this many of any of those groups online before, and credit has to go to the gangway staff that have to get those power wheelchairs on and off at every port.
We managed to stay awake long enough to see the musical comedian, Dan Riley, who we are sure that we saw on a prior cruise. We think he may have been on the Grand Princess when we were on our honeymoon in 2003. He was brilliant!
Off to bed, thankfully we don’t arrive in Grand Turk until the afternoon, so we will be able to sleep in a little tomorrow and relax before the day’s tour.
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