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7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
Mother's Day photo Mom , Dad , and our son and daughters , half of the family for the next cruise we hope . -
Happy Mother's Day ! 💗
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7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
Happy Mother's Day ! 💗 -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
It appears that Disney may have left the larger cove where we snorkeled and the Lighthouse Beach intact . From the Google Map you can see the point . the island beyond and the larger cove where we snorkeled on the reefs . https://www.google.com/maps/@24.6156775,-76.1517276,867m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu Not much life on the reef . Soft corals , sea fans and a small school French Grunts hiding under the rocks . We prefer SCUBA diving and still photos where the Strobe Flash shows the true colors . Photos from the same trip at Grand Cayman . And our Avatar - That's a Moray -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
At Lighthouse Beach there is a point that juts out into the ocean from which we took these photos , facing back . From left to the right was a cove where we snorkeled , a panorama of the cove , the old lighthouse and the ocean and beach . The beach from the point and walking the beach -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
What a nice birthday surprise . It looks like it's going to the beach for your birthday . -
7 Day Tropical Caribbean on the Neiuw Statendam
scubacruiserx2 replied to scubacruiserx2's topic in Holland America Line
A video panorama of the Lighthouse Beach before Disney development . On the horizon after the cove you can see the Regal Princess as a white spot at the 15 second mark , in the distance . The most current Google map of development . https://www.google.com/maps/@24.6213773,-76.1519099,2963m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu -
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 .