Just back from a tour of this island. Oh my goodness, it is a beautiful part of the world. Similar to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, it is green and mountainous. The steep green hills are all covered with nice homes and good, although narrow, roads. Our tour took us to what they call "Mountain Top View Point" from which we could see for miles and miles. Down below us was the famous Megan's Bay -- a long white beach at the end of a huge horseshoe shaped bay, all lined with palm trees. In some respects, it's not unlike Pinney's Beach in Nevis, although that favourite beach is along a straight coast rather than at the curve of a bay. In the foreground were numerous small islands -- some inhabited; some not. We could see cruise ships, including the Noordam. There is a cruise ship terminal about a couple of miles at each side of the city of Charlotte Amalie. From the viewpoint, in the distance, we could see anothe.r US Virgin island -- St John -- as well as Tortola of the BVI. It was a perfectly stunning sight, and not one that could be easily captured with my little iPhone camera, or even a pretty good camera. Pictures are just not the same as what one can see through one's eyes.
We're about to head up to the Lido Deck for lunch. We may head ashore again this afternoon and prowl around the shops here in the terminal. It's a $4 taxi ride (each) to go back to town, and the shops there are mostly out of our reach finanace-wise. For that matter, so are the ones here at the terminal. All these duty free shops carry very expensive items -- mostly jewellry and their "good prices" are in the hundreds of dollars.
Good bye St Thomas. We are now experiencing our last "sea day" on our way to the Bahamas and our last stop before debarking in Ft Lauderdale. The sky is basically blue wih just a few fluffly white clouds. The sea is rippled only, and looking out, I'm sure the world is flat! We're off to breakfast now.
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