Western Caribbean Cruise
On December 2, 2006, we embarked on a
7 day cruise of the Western Caribbean from Tampa, Florida. We had
three ports of call on this cruise: Georgetown, Grand Cayman; Ocho
Rios, Jamica and Costa Maya, Mexico. We had two friends, Josef
and Pat Kietaibl, accompany us on the cruise.
This is our cruise boat the Holland
America Veendam pictured from the tender we rode to shore at
Georgetown, Grand Cayman.
This was an employee demonstrating an
underwater swim with the fish just offshore at Georgetown, Grand Cayman
during a snorkelling excursion that Josef and I signed up for the
princely sum of $54 US.
This is the scene at Dunns River Falls
near Ocho Rios, Jamaica. People walk up the river bed in these
ascending steps of rock.
This is Kathy and Glenn at the base of the Dunns River Falls where it
empties into the ocean.
This is me at Costa Maya, Mexico with
the Veendam in the background.
Josef and Pat selecting menu items for a delicious dinner on the
Holland America Veendam.
Josef, Pat, Kathy and I visited our
ultralight friends Larry and Marie White at their recreational home in
Bonito Springs, Florida. Larry is busy serving drinks in this
picture.
Larry took Josef and I to see the Thomas
Edison estate and museum which we found very interesting. This is
Thomas Edison's home just across the street from the museum where his
lab was located.
Josef and Pat had to
return home from Bonito Springs but Kathy and I had extra holiday time
so we drove down to the Florida Keys to look around. This marker
is 90 miles from Cuba and commemorates the days when people would take
a train down the Florida Keys and get on a ship to travel to Cuba for
their vacations.
Kathy and I took a historical tour
around the Key West town and stopped to go through this house which was
once owned by Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s and is said to be the site
of most of his writings.
This is the Pines and Palms Motel at
Islamorada which is about 60 miles east of Key West and where we stayed
overnight after visiting Key West.