April 11, 2025
St. George's, GRENADA
We indulged in GRENADA with two full Beach days! We all needed some lazy R&R time. Day 1, we enjoyed the bustle of beach area of Gran Anse, where we ran into many others from the ship. On the 2nd day we took our van drivers recommendation, and enjoyed a secluded cove at Morne Rouge Beach. Here we saw no other ship residents and just chilled watching crabs run sideways, had a local vendor make me a custom ankle bracelet ( with a 3 year guarantee!), played Cribbage, swam, sunned, chatted and laughed! Paradise Found! Rounded the day off with a Pyramid at sunset!!
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Fun gang L to R in group picture: Bosco, Marty, Me, Ben, Callie and Scott
Monday April 6th is another travel day for us on our destination to remote Raja Ampat . We started the day at 5am to make our 7am flight from Denpasar, Bali to Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in South Sulawesi for our brief layover to connect with our flight onto Sorong, Indonesia.
Easter turned out to be a travel day for Bosco and I as we were extremely limited in when we could be seen by the Australian Border Control to disembark from the Ship, for a scuba diving adventure in Raja Ampat that I have had reserved, for over 18 months! We flew from Perth to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Easter afternoon.
I have been really excited to get to Fremantle / Perth for my first time. I have had a few friends live here over the years and I have a second cousin, James Murphy, who I have only ever spoken too briefly, over the last 35 years and that I would love to meet in person. Jim is the older brother of Paul who I met up with in Melbourne a few weeks ago.