Honeymoon in Puerto Rico, Part Two

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While in Puerto Rico, we went on an excursion that included a tour of Old San Juan. It was supposed to be a walking tour, but given the heat and humidity of Puerto Rico in July, we thought that was a pretty good idea. Naturally, he mostly wanted to shorten the length of the tour by driving, but we didn’t mind if we got to enjoy the van’s …

Honeymoon in Puerto Rico, Part One

After completing my series of posts on the St. Lucia part of our honeymoon, let’s take a look at the Puerto Rico segment.

We actually went to Puerto Rico first. There are two airports on St. Lucia, one on the north of the island and one on the south. If you fly from the mainland, you have to fly into the larger airport in the south. To get to the Sandals Grande from there, it is a two hour …

Honeymoon in St. Lucia, Part Three

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To close out the St. Lucia part of our honeymoon, here are pictures from our Whale and Dolphin Viewing excursion.

I had never shot dolphins in the wild before, and I must say it was quite the challenge. Their behavior is so unpredictable that by the time you’ve got them framed and in focus, they’re already on the way back down. I got an huge number of pictures …

Honeymoon in St. Lucia, Part Two

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Now lets take a look at some of the photos from our first excursion in St. Lucia, the “Catamaran Day Sail with Lunch and Snorkel”. Although we booked our excursion prior to the honeymoon, we were on a sailboat with couples from the Sandals Resorts in the island. So, no kids!

We loaded into our catamaran in Castries, and headed down the west side of the island, eventually …

Honeymoon in St. Lucia, Part One

Just a quick photoblog entry with some of our photos from the St. Lucian part of our honeymoon in July…

We stayed at the Sandals Grande St. Lucia, which is at the very north of the island on a peninsula. The resort faces out onto a bay on the Caribbean.

Our room, however, faced away from the main sections of the resort, out onto the Atlantic. This provided a tranquil escape from the party.

While this was my first time …