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BERMUDA . . . ST. THOMAS A well remembered landmark in Aruba.
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ARUBA A few more days at sea brought us to Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands. As we lay at anchor, we could look between the islands that rose like mountains from the crystal clear water and see into the harbor and the city it- self. The town of Saint Thomas lav at the base of several mountains that rose like an amphitheater behind it. But. as we soon found out. St. Thomas was nothing as com- pared to Bermuda. We remember Sapphire Beach and Bluebeard ' s Castle, for these were the converging points for us. We remember too. that we had a place to dock when we first got there, but for some reason thev asked us to move, and we spent Easter Sunday rid- ing anchor in St. Thomas harbor. We put to sea again, bound for the island of Aruba. For once, we docked fairly close to town. Though this was only our third port of call, it didn ' t take us long to realize that we seldom docked close to the action . For some reason, we always seemed to end up a half hour ' s ride from town. But in Aruba. we docked in Oranjestad. The hotel that was to be the gathering point on this island was just down the road. The Dutch marines threw a dance for us, and the people seemed warm and friendly, especially in the town of Saint Nicholas, which lay at the opposite end of the island. Cartegena, Colombia, our next port, was eight steaming hours to the west, but we made the trip in the standard four days, (and saw most of the Carribean along the way!) We could see the Southern Cross in the night sky now, and the evening was always a wel- come relief from the heat of the day. Often at night, we sat and gazed for hours at the sea as the clouds and the moon made shadows on the water that played fantastic games with out sense of distance. Without landmarks to measure by, the clouds and their shadows seemed close enough to hit with a stone. During the day, we were amazed to discover that the boundless horizon gave us no sense of smallness as we had been told it would. In- stead, there was a feeling of freedom and power, because we felt that we were here and in control of our situation.
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