Made
port in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, about 9:30 p.m. Had coffee and breakfast in
the cafe and then went ashore with an eye to eventually renting a couple of
chairs and sitting on the beach a few hours. Noticed significantly larger
police presence on the main street than during previous visits and everything
seemed a littler seedier than it had before and, while it certainly did not fee
dangerous in any way, it was a little offputting and made us decide against the
beach. Had a couple of beers at the Greenhouse, a restaurant-bar on the way
back to the cruise terminal that we have gone to several times before.
Returned
to town on my own to take a few additional photos and visit the museum run by
the St. Maarten National Heritage Foundation to see if I could get answers to a
few questions I had about the history of the island. Met museum director Elsje
Bosch, who generously spent more than an hour visiting with me, showing me
around the musuem, and helping me sort out things I had questions about.
Learned a number of interesting things about the island that I had not known
before and which will allow be to correct some errors picked up in my earlier
research.
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