Shout out to CBC transmission department

Hello to The CBC Transmission department.

I noticed some comments left on here by some of my old co-workers.

In case you guys are still checking the blog out every now and again I just wanted to say hello to all of you.

I miss the good times heading up to all the sites epically when we travel in style in a helicopter.

I found this picture online.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbcphotocompetition/4515425784/

Anyways stay in touch.

When you go into the Rainforest, expect rain.

Earlier this week a few of us went to see the Trafalgar Waterfalls in Dominica.

This was my second time stopping at this island and the first time I have gone ashore.

The day started sunny and nice out. Our mistake was thinking that it would stay like that.

We did a short drive to a lookout spot near the main city of Roseau. We got some nice shots from the top then headed inland to the waterfalls.

A bus donated by the Canadian government, and then crushed by a falling tree during a hurricane.

One thing that was interesting that we saw along the drive is the variety of food that grows on the island. Everything from bananas and coffee, to almonds cashews, nutmeg, cinnamon, and mango's, guavas, papayas all were seen growing in random trees at the side of the road. The reason for all this of course is all the rain they get as we soon found out.

As we approached our first stop, a area of geothermal hot springs, and a boiling lake the rain started. We didnt have any umbrellas and got very wet on the short walk to see the hot springs.

Every now and again the rain would stop for a few minutes.

Our next stop the waterfalls were about a 10 minute walk away from the parking area and the rain wasn't slowing down. We got completely soaked getting to the viewing area of the falls. non of us were dressed for rain.
At the viewing area there is a path that leads the the pool area at the base of the falls. Which was a sketchy walk as the rocks were very slippery.


the water coming off the falls were amazingly warm, almost like bath water, and would have make for a great swim if it wasn't for all the rain.

Even still it was a very cool trip and well worth it.

Golf in St. Kitts

The Royal St. Kitts golf course is located at the Marriott resort not far from where the ship docks.

In the last few weeks I have played there twice.

The course is really nice, bordering the Atlantic Ocean for many of the holes.

I played pretty well, for both games, keeping under 100 which was good considering I was using rented clubs.

Pictures to come

Airport Beach St. Maarten

St. Maarten's Airport Beach is famous for its pictures of planes that look like they are going to land on the sand.

The runway of the airport starts just 100ft from the end of the beach and is only separated by a small fence.

All sorts of planes and each hour from very small personal propeller planes to much larger jets, and even the occasional 747.

I sign a the local bar at the end of the beach lists the arrival times of each of the major planes for the day so you can better time your pictures.

A group of us went to the beach a while ago and it was my first day off the ship doing anything more then just a short walk around.

I was able to get many good pictures of the planes as well as getting some good swimming in as well.
Another thing to watch out for is the planes taking off because the larger ones need most of the runway they will start very close to the fence and as they rev up their engines the blast of air they send out is enough to send people tumbling into the water


Airport beach is a really fun and unique place to spend the day.