Snorkeling in St. Thomas

This cruise a friend from a previous contract came to the ship to cruise for a week.

We were able to go on a few tour together.

The first was a snorkeling tour

The ride out to the island was on a nice catamaran, and the day and nice and sunny, which was a lot better then my previous snorkeling trip that began with a lot of rain.

The area we went was an island about an hour from St. Thomas.

we anchored right next to a shipwreck, a modern one, from a previous hurricane.

There wasn't as much sea life as previous places I have been but it was an interesting area.

One thing that was cool was another tour that was in the area was a underwater mini scooter tour. They looked like they would be a lot of fun to have as a personal mini sub on a sailboat. But as a tour it looked like it was kinda boring as everyone was just in a line.

Back and touring

Hello all,

I am going to try and get through a backlog of posts I have been meaning to do.

The first is a tour in Grenada. The rum and beach tour.

This tour took us to 2 rum distillery's on the island. Both used to use the islands sugar cane for the rum manking process but have since stopped as the island doesnt grow much sugar cane anymore.

But there is a lot of the leftover equipment on the sites.

This is the remains of a old aqueduct and waterwheel that ran the grinders for extracting sugar.

A gecko is looking at the fermentation barrel.

After our tour and free rum tastings at each stop we headed to the beach on the other side of the island.

The beach was really nice, great sand, and almost completely empty, as it was far from the ship and any towns. Just a small restaurant and hotel in the area.

After a while at the beach it was back to the ship.