Up early today to bright sunshine and calm sea. We spent the day relaxing, going to lectures and playing trivia (we lost badly). This was the night of the captain's welcome dinner and we have an early dinner reservation in Prime 7. The swell has been building so even if we make it to St Bart's we may not be able to tender ashore.
After dinner we watched the movie "The Martian". There are lots of recent movies available for free with the on board movie system so it is one of the advantages of cruising when you seldom go to movie theaters.
We did make it to St Bart's and the sea was calm enough to use the tenders to take passengers to shore. Our late arrival caused all the tours to be late and the tender service was slow as we were anchored quite a distance from the dock and everyone was trying to get off the ship for tours and just walking around. We stayed on board as we had been here before. St Bart's is a beautiful place with high end shops, lots of restaurants and bars and there are always a lot of big yachts in the port.
We had a very nice dinner with Jack and Angie Toth, a couple that had belonged to the same country club as us when we lived in Michigan.
January 17
We arrived in Martinique about noon and we had a tour of the Balata Botanical Garden. A lovely garden but it was a strenuous walk with lots of steps and steep inclines. We also stopped at a church that was supposed to be modeled on one in Paris, it was quite run down with plants growing out of the walls. Martinique, other than being French is a typical low end Caribbean island.
We had dinner with two of our trivia partners. They were having a special "French" buffet in the place where they normally serve Italian. We will avoid having that dinner if they offer it again.
Arriving at the dock in Martinique
The Sacre Coure (sp?) Church
Bromiliads in the garden
Iridescent blue humming birds with long curved bill
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