Cruise Destinations

We had 4 ports on our cruise: Half Moon Cay, Bahamas; St. Thomas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Grand Turk. There are so many pictures from each of these destinations so I am only going to put a couple of pictures from each destination in here and if you want to see more you can go here.

Half Moon Cay: This is a small uninhabitable (no fresh water) island in the Bahamas that is owned by Carnival. We just hung out on the beach and swam in the ocean. Todd and David snorkeled a little, but for the most part we just relaxed and enjoyed the sun and sand.



St. Thomas: The boys went scuba diving on this island while Kami and I hung out at the beach being waited on hand and foot by all the local cabana boys. I swear they would do anything for a couple of bucks :) We snorkeled at the beach then headed back to town for a little shopping. Lots and lots of stores, but unless you're planning on buying liquor, cigarettes, cigars, perfume or jewelry there isn't much to buy.





San Juan, Puerto Rico: This was a great destination. We decided to do a self-guided walking tour of the island which sounded a little sketchy to me at first but ended up being a blast. We spent time in the gardens at Casa Blanca and lots of time at the Fort of Morro - which was amazing. I didn't think we'd ever get David and Todd out of there. Then we went to lunch at "Barrachina" the home of the pina colada then back to the ship.





Grand Turk: We did an excursion on this island called "Reef and Rays". They took us out to the reef and we snorkeled for a while - there were lots of fish and 2 barracuda's there. Then we headed over to a little sand bar and swam with the stingrays ... well actually there was only 1 that was there, but they said there have been as many as 400 at other times. It was fun to feed the stingray and I even gave it a little kiss on the video. Maybe I'll post it in a few weeks when we get it in the mail. Then we ate at Jimmy Buffet's Margharitaville restaurant, hung out at the beach and shopped a little. Todd got a sweet new watch while were were here (which is his main Christmas present). This was probably my favorite of all the ports we stopped at.