St. Johns, Antigua March 21

We had a beautiful sail into St. Johns, docking by 10 am.  It is very nice to see the clear turquoise water of the Caribbean again.  We did see a large number of small flying fish, we assume that the boat scares them and they fly away and coast quite a distance before falling back into the water.  There were several birds that were taking advantage of the situation, diving after the tiny bite size fish.

We had been booked on a six hour catamaran cruise that included stops at two beaches but we decided that it would have been far too much sun so we cancelled that tour and just walked into the town.  It is very "touristy" and expensive.  One also had to run a gauntlet of taxi drivers trying to get you to hire them for a tour, you would think after telling the first five drivers that you were not interested that they would give up, not the case. They were very persistent and it became very annoying so we went back to the ship after about 30 minutes.  The shop keepers are probably losing business from the passengers as many we spoke with had also cut short their walks in town because of the aggressive taxi drivers.

View of St Johns from the top deck

Tom thought he should buy these boats and start a business















At sail away time there was a party for the gold, platinum, and titanium members of the Seven Seas Society that was held on the bow deck that is usually just for crew members. They had it all set up with drinks,  food and a beautiful ice sculpture of flying fish. It was a very nice event.

 The ice sculpture was one of the best they had ever done

There was lots of great food but it was 4:30 in the afternoon so not a lot of it was eaten

They were even cooking stir fry shrimp

Hats were needed in the bright sun