30th January
2013.
Overnighted in calm
seas from St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands to the Port of St Johns on the
island of Antigua.
The day was fine and
sunny and about 26 degrees. The island of Antigua is about 14 miles long by 11
miles wide and one on the larger islands in the Caribbean group. It’s also a
typical tropical but hilly Caribbean island with a population of about 85,000
people.
The island economy
relies soley on the tourist trade and five large cruise ships were in port on
the day with about 13,000 people out and about spending their hard earnt
dollars, helping the economy out. What I can gather, this amount of cruise
ships visit the port every second day year in year out.
We again spent most of the
morning wandering around the town of St Johns checking out the local sights and
shops, before several heavy rain squalls forced us back to the ship. We did not
do any land excursions as we had seen most of the island sights during our previous
2010 World Cruise.
The port town of St
Johns generally is old and dilapidated and pretty grotty and in need of a good
clean up. It’s hard to believe with so much tourist dollars coming in,
something hasn’t been done to clean the place up. This is not on my list for a
return visit.
We had a beautiful late
afternoon and early sunset sail away and now overnight to the island of Barbados.
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