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7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
While we like Half Moon Cay , it is only a part of Little San Salvador Island in the Bahamas . The people who work there are from Eleuthera and commute daily by boat . Our favorite cruise ship Cay was Princess Cay located at the Southern area of Eleuthera . There was a natural beach called Lighthouse Beach which was off of the Princess property that we used to go to . You can see from left to right on this map , Eleuthera Island ( Princess Cay ) , Little San Salvador Island ( Half Moon Cay ) and Cat Island . https://www.google.com/maps/place/Little+San+Salvador+Island/@24.5754043,-76.0265797,12.05z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x893042c47ce97625:0xb817f511398b8006!8m2!3d24.5712472!4d-75.9143867!16zL20vMGNzcWRw?entry=ttu Unfortunately , Disney bought Lighthouse Beach and will change it in the same way that Carnival buys or rents land like Amber Cove in the DR . And HAL did with Half Moon Cay . Here's the story on the Disney purchase . https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2023/03/new-disney-cruise-line-island-destination-at-lighthouse-point-in-the-bahamas-to-welcome-guests-in-summer-2024/ Please look at what Disney is doing and we will show photos of what it was when we went there on a Princess cruise with a local guide before the Disney purchase . We left the Princess property by a gate in the back of the property by showing our Passport and met our guide here . We needed a 4 wheel drive vehicle to travel to the beach in the back of the truck . -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
Found the better photo of the lighthouse -
Photo Review: Eurodam Panama Canal 04/13-04/27/2024
scubacruiserx2 replied to steamboats's topic in Holland America Line
We are looking forward to seeing and reading it . We have a close connection to Germany as that was where my wife's parents met after the war . They were both Americans but they met far away from where they grew up . Our first visit there was on the NCL Dream in 2006 that went thru the Kiel Canal and flipped it's stack to go under the bridges there in 2006 . We went to Berlin of course on that trip , but we liked it so much that we stayed for 10 days in Munich in 2011 , just after 1 day Octoberfest had ended . -
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Photo Review: Eurodam Panama Canal 04/13-04/27/2024
scubacruiserx2 replied to steamboats's topic in Holland America Line
Hello Carmen . We have looked at your review and are excited to see your photos and follow your review . We did a similar cruise on the Eurodam's sister ship the Nieuw Amsterdam in April of 2022 on the same route with a couple of extra stops . We liked it so much that we did the same cruise in reverse beginning with Alaska and ending in our home port of Ft. Lauderdale , in the Fall of 2022 . I'm a visual person and used a lot of photos as you have , but on a Cruise Critic thread . I would encourage the use of them to help direct people to your blog and beautiful photos as you did with your splash page on your blog . Here's a photo from the same location in Huatulco , but a different angle . We have also included a photo from the port of Manzanillo , Mexico that you did not appear to go to . If you would like to read our threads about the Canal , they are posted below . Joseph and Pat -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
Instead of the Northeastern reef system with waves , we would be diving and eating on the calmer West side . The dark blue line on the horizon is where the wall drops off to 7000 ' deep . -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
At the beginning of the last century salt production was Grand Turk's main business with an export of 140 million pounds per year . Donkeys were used for labor and you can still see wild ones all over the island . We saw this one near the lighthouse looking for food in the scrub -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
This was the only time that we went on the East side of Grand Turk . With 1000 shipwrecks on this side , it's best for cruise ships to keep their distance . Pretty but deadly . -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
A map of Amber Cove We found some photos from Grand Turk when we first visited there with a trip to the Lighthouse 7 miles from the port at the North end of the Island . The only lighthouse in the country, it was prefabricated in England and built in 1852 it first used whale oil to light the lamp before being converted to kerosene . As we walked around the grounds we took a picture of the lighthouse but the glare from the sun didn't allow a good photo . -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
We spent Cinco de Mayo with our daughters , SIL and her 2 sons . Today she has a 2 hour surgery in the hospital where she has been a nurse for 17 years . If you pray we would appreciate that you would pray for her surgery and the team of Doctors and nurses , and her family as she undergoes a 6 month rehab before returning to work and cruising later on our family cruise . Thank you . 🙏 -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
For our visit to Amber Cove and what we did we would recommend post # 297 on the link below . -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
7-Day Tropical Caribbean -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
They did a good job for a great price . Highly recommended for wedding . The guests that didn't sail left the ship before it left . We went on our daughter's honeymoon but didn't see her or our SIL until the last night at the Chef 's Table . 😊🙂 -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
They were and they did ! We hope to surprise the family with it , maybe on an afternoon at sea . This was the food that came with our daughters wedding on Carnival in the Port of Miami . -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
On a long cruise from Alaska to Ft. Lauderdale we met a group of people at the interdenominational church service . We agreed to also meet in the mornings at sea for a bible study . Near the end of the cruise we had the room for the group to meet for an afternoon tea from HAL . We haven't seen so much food since our daughter got married on a cruise ship . We want to do this with the family . The group beginning to arrive . The 2 ladies with glasses took a HAL excursion in Costa Rica called A Zipline Adventure . There was a lot of rain in the mountains and 2 miles of mud that they had to hike through in the dark to get back to the ship . But we had sailed to make the time for our transit through the Panama Canal . We met2 days later in Panama , after the Canal . The rest of the group