St. Maarten

St. Maarten was the last port of call on the cruise.  We had a downhill hike scheduled.  We were all sunscreened up, and in the van on the way to the starting point, when it started raining.  And it rained enough to make hillside/mountainside slippery enough that the excursion comany called it.  So, instead of doing a downhill hike, we got a tour of the island - including some shopping time in a local market place - and a trip to a local attraction ... the "airport bar" i'll call it.  The island is so small, that the planes don't have too much of a landing strip to land on.  And they start coming in really low right over the beach.  So, some brilliant person put in a bar right by the airport landing strip so that tourists could come get their hair blown back by the planes coming in & just watch the fun.

 fishbone dog!