Arrived in Dominica and had an early morning tour, we were pretty much the first group off the ship, looked like the town was ready for a big shopping day.
We started walking to the boat and got on and more and more people got on, we were wondering where they were going to fit everybody. The had an upper deck but wouldn’t let anybody up there until they got out into the harbor and they did their safety briefing. It was quite crowded but we got seats and it was a pretty rough ride out as they were looking for the whales, they said it is unusual to see dolphin. We wandered around for about an hour and we started to wonder if there were really any whales out there. We started to head towards some smaller boats and found what we came out to see, whales. There were 2 or 3 smaller excursions out there and they were in the water and had a drone flying over them videoing their experience.
We stayed out there for about an hour following the pods of whales, they said they stay on top for 15-20 minutes and then head under for at least 45 minutes. So with so many people on the boat at times it was hard to see them, the Captain said at the beginning he would move the boat around when we were there so everybody would get a view but that didn’t happen. Even though we did get some decent shots.
After the whale trip we headed back to the ship and Lisa unstressed herself for an hour and then she was ready to get some lunch. We then headed out to the local market and didn’t find much to buy, I found a hat but that was pretty much it. We headed back and got ready for the evening activities, as we were getting ready for the evening the Captain came on and told us the weather wasn’t going to be acceptable in St. Barts. St. Barts doesn’t have a cruise dock so we would be tendering in and they didn’t feel they were going to be able to accomplish that safely. So they made the decision to change our destination to Saint Maarten, the crew was busy creating tours and updating the daily compass for the new port. We had been to Saint Maarten on the way down the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we were the only ship in town that day and several things were closed, even the water taxi wasn’t running, so it was nice to be going back. Glenn brought us some spring rolls (10 of them) we could barely eat dinner after that. We were meeting up with a couple that we met earlier in the cruise who were originally from the St. Louis area. We had a nice dinner with them and spent a lot of time discussing St. Louis stuff. We were going to go to the show but Lisa opted for the bed and I for the casino, wasn’t a great night at the casino so I came back and finished up yesterdays blog and went to bed. Got up this morning and fixed Tuesday’s blog, I knew there was some issues I was just too tired to fix them. So that was our day a very nice one and we are now off to Saint Maarten.
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