2024.01 Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Grand Cayman (Part 9)

With an 11am flight from Fort Lauderdale, we shouldn’t have any stress getting to our flight, right?  Buckle up for this story!  Time for something new in our traveling experiences.

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2024.01 Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Grand Cayman (Part 8)

Our final port of call was Kralendijk, Bonaire, to complete our tour of the ABCs.  I think this itinerary saved the best for last.

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2024.01 Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Grand Cayman (Part 7)

The order in the blog, is not the order from the cruise.  Curacao was our first stop of the ABCs after Cayman Island.  This island obviously showed that it had an industrial past before tilting towards tourism.  The best part about this island, was that we had friends to visit!

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2024.01 Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Grand Cayman (Part 6)

Time for Aruba!  Now to mix up the next ports of call — the ship didn’t stop in alphabetical order, instead we stopped at Curacao first, then Aruba, and last was Bonaire.  With the short distance between islands, this allowed us to have a late evening departure form Curacao, and then already be in Aruba by the time we woke up and got moving for the day.

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2024.01 Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Grand Cayman (Part 5)

Our first port of call on this cruise is the British Overseas Territory of Cayman Islands.  Our ship was anchored just off shore from the port of George Town.  Here we had a planned excursion to something that Little Miss loves — animals!  Seas were calm, so transferring to a tender was a breeze and quickly we were on shore, in a bus and off on our excursion.

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