Curacao

The last island we went to had some stunning architecture, most of it dutch influenced. It also had some vivid color on its buildings and apparently the story it that the prime minister would get migraines from all of the white buildings being so bright on his eyes so they ordered that all the building be painted in pastels. We walked around a bit downtown and saw the longest floating pontoon bridge in the world. When boats need to get through the bridge actually swings open and closed, we were on it when the alarm rang so we quickly ran off like the locals some tourists stayed on but it was kind of cool to see.

This was a shot of a few buildings from the ship but it doesn't do justice to the colors really!

This was as the bridge was swinging back closed!

Then we went over and checked out the floating market - these last two islands are only about 20 miles away from Venezuela so they ship over a lot of the meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables and sell them from their boats. Also a lot of Pelicans hang around looking for a free meal as they chop up the fish and throw the extras back into the water!

Afterward we just got a taxi to one of the closest beaches but we weren't super impressed because there were just too many people and it was too populated to really enjoy ourselves but we did snorkel just a bit more and try to soak up our last day on land before heading back to the ship for a final two days at sea!