Cruise Day 7 - St. Maarten

The last day was a stop in St. Maarten - this was another stop we had visited on our honeymoon cruise and we had fond memories of visiting Orient Beach that trip. We considered a few different options for this day but never really went through with anything. Since it had been a busy week with island after island (rough life i know) we went for a very relaxing day this time. We just asked around and heard that Little Bay was a nice beach only about 10 minutes from the cruise terminal. So we took a taxi there and got dropped off at a resort that didn't even charge us anything to have access to their facilities. We had looked into others with a $50 resort fee so finding this was awesome. It wasn't a huge fancy resort but still very nice and we had a great day.

This was actually the one day that we had non-perfect weather. When we got off the boat it was very overcast and it had been raining overnight. It actually rained on us for about 20 minutes at the resort, but we stayed on the patio at that time. Then it cleared and was perfect for the rest of the day!

The resort had a couple pools we were able to hang out at in the morning. The place was pretty empty honestly so it was really nice. It was a Saturday, so I think a lot of people were checking out or in that day. We spent some time trying to get a good picture of this parrot to show our kids, then all of a sudden it walked over to the pool to get a drink. Or maybe it just wanted to have a chat with Tyler?

Tyler chatting with his new friend

Not too bad of a view from the pool!

After taking this pic, I hopped in the hammock too :)

The water temperature was totally perfect and I probably spent more time in the ocean here than any other island. We then were able to go snorkeling here too, once again - glad we brought our snorkel gear :)

About to  head out to snorkel

View of the resort from our snorkeling spot

 

We didn't get as many snorkeling pictures here but there were some really colorful fish here too.

About to leave our last island.

Panoramic View of Little Bay

All the islands were so great, this was probably the most relaxing - a perfect end to our week!