Day 5 St Maarten

the ship arrived at 7am at the pilot station for St Maarten... a nice breeze greeted us on a sunny 85* day... we  took the short water taxi from the cruise port across to the downtown area of Philippsburg. .  walked the downtown area for a while then it was onto the beach and a nice swim in the clear warm waters..  a lil'bit more shopping then back across on the water taxi.. walked around the cruise port shops and back onto the ship for a late lunch..   after we leave here this afternoon at 5pm it's across the big ocean  for 6 days to Tenerife, Canary Islands-Spain for our next port .. hopefully good weather and calm seas like we've had on  this cruise the  two prior years will prevail...

ship's satellite internet connection as always horrendously slow..