Our Carnival Pride Repo Journeys Cruise (with pics) - 2/26/17

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Here are a couple of coastal views……

The biggest industry in Bonaire is the production of salt. Here are some photos of the salt ponds…..

To be continued…..

 

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Here are some more salt pond views……

Salt as far as the eye can see…..

This conveyor is used for loading salt onto ships…..

The van stopped for some photo opportunities. Patti caught me in the back of the van…..

Our guide has brought us chunks of salt…..

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Patti shows us her chunk of salt. The guide tells us that chunks like that sell for $10 at stores in town…..

Our next stop is just a short distance away. These were the slave huts where the slaves that worked in the salt mines would stay each night. There would be around 6 to 8 slaves in each hut……

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Here are a few more views of the slave huts……

Our driver…..

We were now going to backtrack and head north to the lookout point at Seru Largu. Passing through town, the van stops at a private residence to show us some flamingos in captivity. These flamingos are white because they aren’t eating shrimp, which is what gives them their usual pink color…..

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We are now making our way up the hills to Seru Largu…….

This was our van……

This is the highest point on the island…..

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From up here you get some awesome views of Kralendijk, and of the Royal Princess and Carnival Pride…..

Here are some more views from the lookout…….

You can see the salt ponds in the distance…..

We are now heading down the hills…..

To be continued……

 

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We have arrived at our last stop, Coco Beach. We will have two hours here before heading back to the ship…..

This way to the bar!!!

We grabbed apair of loungers in the second row…..

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For food, there is Yhanni’s Grill…..

Hookah anyone?

Think I’ll stick to beer…..

Beach volleyball court…..

The beach here is very rocky……

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With my legs I wasn’t going to wade in the water by climbing over rocks. Luckily, they had a floating dock with a ladder for easy access to the water…..

I’m climbing down into the water…..

I have made it in with my water camera…..

Patti walks along the beach and takes pictures…..

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Patti continues her walk along Coco Beach…..

The palm trees are blowing in the steady breeze…..

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Here are a couple more views of the floating dock. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to get in the water…..

Most swimmers stayed in this area…..

I’m looking to see if I can spot any fish……

I did see a few…..

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I got a picture of Patti taking my picture…..

The Woodwind sails by…..

One more beer for the road…..

The vans picked us up right on time. It only took 15 minutes or so and we were back at the Carnival Pride…..

To be continued…..

 

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At this point I made my way back on board the Pride, and made a beeline up to the Red Frog Rum Bar to visit my friend Winston. Patti walked around the town and the waterfront, taking pictures along the way…..

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Here are a few more pictures of the waterfront area…….

Here's a view of the Royal Princess.....

Once Patti was back on board we met back at the cabin to watch our sail away from our balcony. Here are some shots as we waited to sail away…..

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Here are some more views of Kralendijk, Bonaire as we waited to sail away…..

The Carnival Pride has pushed away from the pier…..

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Goodbye Bonaire…….

We are sailing past the Royal Princess…..

We are back in the Normandie Restaurant tonight. Here are tonight’s menus…..

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For her starters, Patti had a shrimp cocktail and a Caesar’s salad. I had the corn fritters and an order of the BBQ pulled wild boar…..

For one of my mains I had the teriyaki pork tenderloin……

We both had the fried shrimp and fish…..

Here is tonight’s dessert menu…..

Patti had the butter pecan ice cream and I had a banana split.

Afterwards we made our way to Punchliner’s to see the comedy of Steve Burr. It was a good show.

Tonight in the Taj Mahal was the comedy and hypnotism of Asad. Our friend Kris was one of those that were hypnotized. We wish we could have seen that!

Back to the cabin and tonight’s turndown service…..

Coming up next: A much needed sea day!!

 

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Tuesday, March 7th - Sea Day # 4.

Here are today’s Fun Times……

I just want to tell you right up front that there were very few pictures taken today. I guess the camera was tired after two straight port days!

We slept in today. It was partly cloudy outside, and the seas were choppy, but not as bad as the other day.

Patti put together three bags of laundry, then went to the Taj Mahal for the morning session of Bingo. (No luck).

I worked on pictures in the cabin for a while, then made my way up to the Red Frog Rum Bar to pay Winston a visit.

Patti came to collect me so we could enter the slot tournament in the casino. I made it onto the leader board in the 4th position, but it wouldn’t hold up…..

To be continued……..

 

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I played blackjack for an hour or so at two different tables with the same crappy results.

We stopped at chopsticks for some Asian food just before they closed for lunch.

After we finished eating we played LCR. There were 37 people in the game so it took quite a long time to finish. Of course I gave away my last dollar to the eventual winner!

We then sat down and played cards with Kris and Ken until it was time for them to go to dinner, then we made our way back to the cabin to relax before our dinner.

The sun is going down on another relaxing sea day…..

Here are tonight’s American Table menus…..

To be continued……

 

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For her starters, Patti had a shrimp cocktail and the spinach and artichoke dip…..

For my starters I had the seafood chowder and the fire roasted chicken…..

For my mains I had the blackened catfish and the Caribbean pepper steak…..

Patti had the flat iron steak…..

To be continued……