Today on the Island of Grand Turk

We landed on Grand Turk today about 11AM so not an early start. We are going on a historical sojourn on this Island as well so we will see how it goes.We were able to get in to port just as the wind and waves started to increase, this caused a lot of people to be unhappy when they canceled all water activities. Laura and I were lucky in that we had booked an Island tour so it was a go for us. The guide was the best we have had since we started this trip, he had gone away to Miami for school and returned to the island. The island is 7 miles long and 2 miles wide and was once a US

military base now abandoned.

Their was a lot of doubt that the Ruby Princess was going to land but it did and 6000 people descended on the island that has a population of 3500. I thought our ship was big but the Ruby was even bigger.

The tours first stop was an old salt pond where they used to make salt for the US over the last 200+ years up to the late 1970's. We then stopped at a light house and poked around for about 20 min then returned to a pond that had some flamingo's having late lunch. There was an old wild horse they call Hightower and at thirty he is blind in one eye but other than that he looks great and even lived through the last hurricane in 2008. The houses did not fare so well and many are still being worked on.

Once the tour was over he returned us to the dock and said that the third bar up the beach was a local watering hole where the beer was $3.50 instead of the $5.00 at the cruise line owned bars,once that was accomplished back to the ship for lunch and a snooze.

This evening after returning from dinner Novi has done it again and I didn't see this one coming, she left us a crab, yes I am sure it is a crab, got it! wink wink nudge nudge.