Still at sea.
Coming into port.
Wandering around the port.
December 23, 2024
Caribbean Cruise Part 5 - Third Port - Philipsburg, St. Maarten
December 9th, we docked in Philipsburg, St. Maarten from 8:30am to 4:30pm. It was another gorgeous sunny day, and our group headed out for another excursion. We walked around the port for a bit to check it out...it was quite snazzy...then we took a water taxi across to the main island and 'haggled' with a taxi that then brought us on our own private little tour around the island, from the Dutch side through the French and back again. What a neat experience to see so much in such a short amount of time. We stopped first at a beautiful beach where so much fun things were going on. Then we drove through many small towns, the roads were so full of switchbacks and ups and downs, I'm glad we had a local driving us or it would have been quite the adventure for sure. They drive all over the road until another car comes so you have to know where the corners are as to not hit anyone...I'm glad I sat in the back not paying attention to what was in front of us. We went to a cute little area to shop and the driver's cousin who came with us acted as our tour guide, she was visiting from Holland, so we all traveled around together...she was quite lovely, and it was fun to have her show us the sights. We then stopped at this incredible lookout which my photos really don't do it justice and after we headed back to where we began. We ate at a restaurant along the beach, toured around a bit in that part of town and then headed back to the water taxi to get back to the main port and the ship. The people were again, so very nice, and we were treated so well. It was a great day, and I would have loved to have had more time there.
Water Taxi
In town.
Fun beach with all kinds of equipment to rent.
Lookout.
Fun shopping area.
Another lookout but this was up on a hill we had to climb,
they had a chicken sanctuary at the parking area.
View of the ship.
Wandering around town.
The beach where we had lunch then back to the water taxi.
Headed back to our ship.