Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Cruise Day 8 - 2012-03-26

We woke up by Saba - a small island with steep "mountains" on it. In fact, the top of the mountain is promoted as the talles spot in The Netherlands....

The place is famous for its excellent diving/snorkeling so most people got off the boat for fish watching, and all came back full of excitement about the wonderful things they saw.

Around noon we all stepped into a boat and were taken to a small landing dock on the other side of Saba. That place was very ugly, but once we started driving up in the 2 vans which awaited us on the duck, things started improving rapidly. There are a few small villages on the island (~2000 people live there), scattered on the hills with a beautiful background of the rain forest. This island, small as it is, has a medical school. We also saw a couple of medical schools and a vetrinary school on St. Kitts - seems that many American kids come to study in these schools.

Lunch was at the Queen's Gardens Resort (Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands). We sat in a beautiful garden and were served very nice food - definitely the best eating we had on shore, but still a far cry from Matthew's creations.

About half the group went for a hike in the rain forest and enjoyed it a lot, and the rest went back to the boat.

And then some more snorkeling, showers and dinner - the last one on the boat... The evening ended with the last act of Heartbreak House - we all enjoyed this a lot and some of the readers put their whole soul into their roles.

Photos at: https://plus.google.com/photos/115788154995936631095/albums/5724554052627160305?authkey=CPeepObZ-8e4tAE

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