GRAND TURK:  My husband was feeling much better today be he was not able to leave his room until 2:00 p.m. so I went on the island for an hour or so and just walked around.  Not much at the pier, but a very beautiful beach, and some tourist shops that one would expect to see in a Caribbean pier.  The pier was on an isolated area of the island, you would have to take a taxi or shuttle into town.  The town looked interesting as we were leaving Grand Turk and could view it from the ship, but due to my husband's illness I chose not to go by myself.  We did have a scuba diving excursion booked here but obviously had to cancel.  We did hear from one lady on our last day disembarking the ship that the diving in Grand Turk was very good.  Sorry we missed it!  

Grand Turk

SAN JUAN:
My husband was finally better so we did our rain forest hike excursion to El Yunque with Holland America (paid $59 per person).  We left on a smaller bus holding around 20 people.   They do not allow the larger buses on the roads to El Yunque because the roads are too narrow.  It took a little over an hour to arrive.  Our very friendly guide gave lots of info on the ride to forest and there were many great views  along the way (once out of San Juan area of course).   Upon arriving we did our hour or so long hike through El Yunque.  The rain forest was absolutely beautiful with its winding paths and gorgeous vegetation, but it was indeed a rain forest.  We thought we would not mind getting a little wet and did not bring our rain jackets.  Boy were we wrong!   If you do this excursion be sure and take a rain jacket and hiking shoes or tennis shoes.  It poured for a good 45 minutes on the hour or so hike and we were very cold and wet in the end.  The pathway was long and narrow and very slippery, not for beginners.  You should be in pretty good shape to do this excursion.   They rated it as moderate, but with the heavy rain and slippery pathways I would rate it a little harder than that.  One older gentleman took an additional hour to arrive back to the bus.   As I previously mentioned we came back very wet and cold which took a lot out of us.  The entire excursion was around 6 hours.   We wanted to go into San Juan that evening, but were too tired.  Maybe next time!?  We heard mixed reviews on San Juan, I guess it was a matter of who you spoke to.

San Juan

ST. THOMAS:  Today we went out onto the Castaway Girl sailing excursion, again an Holland America excursion (paid $59 per person).  We were pleased with this excursion.  Nice crew, fun sailing on the catamaran, about 30 on board and about 4 crew.   It took about an hour ride out to Buck Island, snorkeled for about and hour and another hour or so back.  The snorkeling was below average, but my husband and I are divers so we have higher expectations.  Visibility was about 30 feet, not that great and not much marine life, but we went more for the sailing than for the snorkeling.  I believe that is pretty typical for St. Thomas.  On the way back, the crew gives you all the rum punch and pretzels you want.  Nice, young energetic crew that tried to please everyone.   We did not go into town as we are not much of shoppers.  

St. Thomas

Food at seated dinners was slighter better than Carnival Cruise we went on last year.We just enjoy the fact that we are being served good food by nice people and surrounded by interesting dinner guests.

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