St. Maarten in May 2017

Our favorite boat and Captain in St. Maarten is the Celine Too and Capt. Neil.  We have taken many trips aboard the 62 foot motor catamaran for sunset cruises, dinners, Tintamarre island day trip, snorkeling, fishing, beach lounging, and the best homemade food!  Chuck was asked to perform a marriage vow renewal ceremony aboard the Celine Too during a sunset cruise, so beautiful.  

It’s that time of year where the Sargasso Seaweed is abundant and can stretch for miles across the surface.  It is the only seaweed that grows on top of the water and never touches the ocean floor.  The Sargasso is a habitat for many creatures, including shrimps, crabs, worms and even a fish called the Sargassum Fish.  This seaweed causes great havoc for the many beautiful beaches including the pictures we show of Dawn Beach.  This is nature and we love it all as we are still “Livin the Dream” and Loving St. Maarten!

We continue to meet new people and make new friends and have visits with old friends as well.  We met Steve and Suzanne from a city in Illinois near our previous home.  We enjoyed several fun times with them at the beach, at the pool, on our boat and at Oyster Bay Resort where they invited us for dinners with several of their vacationing friends.  We are often with our dear friends, Dwayne and Neil, celebrating Neil’s birthday, dinners out, cocktails at local bars, and game nights.  A local restaurant, Toppers, has a Broadway show night with local dancers and a great show. 

Our friend, Debbie, and her daughter, Mackenzie, from a town near Erie, Pennsylvania, returned to St. Maarten for a week at Oyster Bay Resort and we were able to spend a whole day with them, what fun!  A friend of ours for several years, Hyroline, took a day off from work at Oyster Bay Resort and came with her adorable son, Honor, to visit us on our boat for the afternoon.  Our good friends, Dean and Katie, were on a cruise ship which made a stop in St. Maarten and we spent the day at Maho Beach watching the planes land.  We will soon be returning to the States where we will be stopping to see many of these good friends again!