This Caribbean season was more work than play. There was some beach time but after Jayne left there were very few photos. Still was good fun but work was the priority. Many of the ports were new to me and I really enjoyed the Dutch ports of call, very different to the rest of the Caribbean (I thought anyway).

ms Noordam run in the Caribbean

It was exciting to go to a new port, Puerto Limon is in Costa Rica and just above the panama canal. You can drive across the whole country in 3.5 hours which I thought was cool.

After dispatching tours in some more extreme heat Jeff and I jumped on one of the tours that we were running (I dont think there was much else to do there anyway).

bananas

The first stop was a Banana plantation, they export to Europe and North America, it is a big brand called dole, I havent heard of them before but Jeff says they are big.

more trains!!!

After the plantation we got onto a train and went up the caribbean coast. There was once a train line across the whole of Costa Rica but there was a big earth quake and allot of the infrastructure was distroyed including the train system. There are also many abandoned buildings and the pier looks like it has seen better days.

the local beer

the canal of blah blah ( I forgot the name, it starts with a “T” )

Anyway part of the train tracks had been restored and we went on them. Once off the train we boarded boats and went through the canals. There was lots of wildlife and stuff, all in all a good tour……lots of old folk though.

our charged up boat (count the gray heads)