April 22, 2025
SCARBOROUGH, TOBAGO - Port greeting
After our port talk - it seemed the most interesting thing, in this sleepy fishing village of TOBAGO, was to go to Pigeon Point Beach and get a boat ride out to the Nylon pool ( which is a large shallow area, in the center of the ocean, with transparent turquoise water. Princess Margaret visited on her honeymoon in 1962, and said the transparent water was like Nylons. Locals claim the water and sand rejuvenate women by 10 years and give men, 10 years more in smarts! A lot of people, including me, rubbed the sands all over their bodies. I found the boat tour on Get your Guide We also were able to negotiate a van driver from the port, who took us and picked us up later from the port to the beach docking areas.
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MALAYSIA , on BORNEO ISLAND made palm seed oil their biggest export back in 1966 and was the top global exporter until 2008, when Indonesia surpassed them. Sadly, the resulting tropical deforestation has created major habitat losses and population declines for the Borneon Orangutans, Pygmy Elephants and Proboscis Monkeys . Many of us on the ship took tours to see these amazing creatures and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos too.
BORNEO ISLAND is a fascinating place, that I had honestly only heard of from the reality tv show Survivor. I'm still learning so much, but I had no idea it is the largest island in Asia and 3rd largest island in the World! It is a mini continent, with 3 different Countries sharing the island's land mass ( Indonesia 73%, Malaysia 26% and Brunei 1% ). We are only going to 2 ports in Malaysia now, one in each of the states of Sarawak and Sabah . Below is a video that highlights and explains thing well.
The Port of Singapore is massive and thus deserving of it's own post!