We attended a talk about Grand Turk this morning before the ship arrived in port.
When we arrived, the Noordam was just getting ready to set sail. What perfect timing, as it’s quite a small island, so having 2 large ships would likely have overwhelmed them.
The nicest thing about this island, is that the people are not standing around begging you to take a cab, or trying to get you to shop. And the shopping is all centred right around the pier, nice and easy.
When we found our tour location, we found out that the bus for the 1:30 tour had broken down and they were reshuffling people onto later trips. We were fortunate that our tour at 1:45 to Conch World left right on time.
While waiting we met a man whose tour companion had cancelled, so he became our new friend “Merv”. When he found out we were Canadian, he was interested in obtaining some of our coins for his collection. Unfortunately, I had cleaned these all out and left them in the safe. Matt did have a toonie, which we gave him, and had him give us his cabin number so we could drop more off later, which we did.
It was an interesting trip across the island. We saw the US military base and the replica of John Glenn’s capsule, although we were unable to get a photo as we were driving quite fast. It was interesting to learn that they allow their animals to roam free and by “animals” I mean horses and donkeys. Apparently if they have a rope around their neck, they belong to someone and will graze and then return home when they are ready.
The bus was not in great repair and we had some difficulty getting up hills ... I still don’t understand why he would come to a complete stop before going up the hill in a manual transmission vehicle.
Conch world was very interesting. We started off with a tasting of conch fritters, which were quite good. Then some history of the conch and sales. Then on to some information about farming and we actually saw several small pools with different stages of growth. The last stop was to see the only 2 conchs in the world that are trained to come completely out of their shell, as this is not something they normally do. Very cool!
After the tour we spent quite a lot of time waiting for the bus to return us to the pier, only to find out that that bus wasn’t considered “safe” and they were waiting for another bus to arrive.
We attending the musical “Motor City” which was a revue of Motown hits. Very well done, and I especially liked how they took Boyz II Men’s Motown Philly and changed the words to Princess inspired phrases.
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