Alan and I spent our last day in port the way we had intended to spend all our stops…..by relaxing and doing not a whole lot! And this was made easy because there was not an army of taxi drivers trying to get business. We might have been tempted if they had been!
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| Sea Urchins |
Being still not 100% healthy, I made the painful decision not to go to a beach. Bonaire is very famous for its beautiful beaches, I believe their whole coast is protected and it shows, even at the harbour where the Ventura was docked. Little sea urchins and beautiful coloured fish of all sizes are everywhere.
On our first trip to Bonaire, I was able to snorkel at Eden Beach. It was stunning and great fun. But not today. Of course, there will be another trip, we know this now. So I will get another chance to swim in Caribbean waters again!
The main street is right where the ship docks so Alan and I spent the day either walking up and down the shore looking at fish, or shopping. Not to mention buying a bucket of Polar beer in El Mundo pub. But, to be honest, that was mainly to use their free wifi and catch up on this blog!
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| We were on Riviera Deck, just under the glassed overhang. 6th balcony from the stern! The light doesn't show in this photo! |
We also were able to see our balcony from the shore and realised we left one of our lights on!
Some of the friends we had made were intending to go tubing on Bonaire, so we went our separate way. Then learned they discovered a place that did little electric car tours of the island. Sounded amazing, with beaches, flamingos, iguanas and lots of good laughs. We will definitely look this up the next time we are on this fabulous island.
As we left Bonaire, Ventura hosted the largest of the Great British Britannia Launch Sailaway party. P&O always has impressive Great British Sailaway parties on the last port of their itinerary, so I have been to a few. But this one was incredible! I believe there were double the amount of passengers participating in this one, on decks 15, 16, 17 and 18! But that would be due to the excitement of our Queen naming and launching the Britannia today in Southampton. I do wonder if our strange itinerary and having 2 sea days at the end are a result of needing to arrange the timetable to coincide with this celebration? I do know all 7 P&O cruise ships held simultaneous sail away parties and the videos and photos taken by the ships’ official photographers are going to be streamed on the P&O website.
We were able to watch the rerun of Queen Elizabeth dedicating the new ship Britannia. It had been the talk of the ship on this day and I had not seen it at the time it happened.
Quote taken from the entertainment committee today as they hosted the Great Sailaway Celebration -
“Today is a great day to be British."
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