well welcome to the top of the world people this is a view from the top of
the cable car area in st. Thomas in the Caribbean it's just a an overnight
cruise from Puerto Rico to here my wife and I were on a Royal Caribbean cruise
on the Explorer of the Seas and we docked in the morning and there's our
ship there we walked over to the cable car and came up here and had a gorgeous
day here it was a Sunday there was no other cruise ship in town or on the
island we were the only one thankfully I have seen photos of two or three or even
four cruise ships at a time maybe more that have been here at the same time but
thankfully our cruise ship even though it was as big as it was with I think
with 4,000 guests we were the only ship in town that day and so I would bet you
there were only 15 of us on the top of the cable car at the time we were there
this is still in the morning probably about 10:00 in the morning maybe and
what a gorgeous gorgeous day not a cloud in the sky and you can see how we're
we're beginning to move down now we we were on the top of the cable car we're
coming back down for the for the return ride and at the top here there's a
beautiful observation area they have a seating area in the shade you can enjoy
a beverage or two or a snack or two or pick up some souvenirs of course
proverbial t-shirts or whatever else and but the views are just absolutely
spectacular you can see here as we just come over the lip of the top of the
building here and we're gonna come down and over the the edge and then you'll
see the the whole Harbor here just beautiful with all the yachts and the
sailboats that are all moored here there's our ship there it's deceptive
how big it is right now it doesn't even make up the whole frame but as we come
down that ship gets bigger and bigger and bigger you can see the lifeboats on
the side of it and each like what can hold 200 people so that is a Monstress
the Explorer of the Seas and Saint Thomas is a u.s. Virgin Island so they
accept US Dollars very readily there's a Kmart there and all the other American
retailers beautiful place to visit gorgeous place to see I would love to go
back someday as a perhaps as a fly-in tourist and spend a week or two and just
hang out very very nice but I can imagine that the downtown area that
harbour area with four or five cruise ships each between two and four thousand
people that would be complete mayhem and I think it spoils it but with one ship
in at a time my goodness does it ever come off as a serene calm
place and look at the color of that water just gorgeous this is what the
cruise ships brochures are all about they take photos like this and this is
how you sell the cruise let me tell you beautiful beautiful situation we love
the we love the whole cruise the ship was large massive there was no shortage
of things to do you didn't feel like you were in a crowded area at all even with
as many people on the ship as there were and just made for a fantastic time there
at the bottom there oh here comes a cable car the other direction there's
three little cars going one way and three little cars going the other so we
wave at the folks as they wave at us we and then down we come a couple of homes
on the hillside have a great view of course there's that massive yacht right
the front there that's a private ship and you finally you know you kind of get
a sense of scale of that ship as you come down right now we're looking back
towards the island side here as we're coming over the hill see some of the
houses at the top of the hill up there they've got a phenomenal view and then
here's the some of the businesses in the bottom part here and everything you need
is available there's the the Yacht Club and there's that big yacht that I was talking
about that that yacht has got to be 200 feet long I don't know how many people
are on it but I would imagine the staff to run that yacht have to be 12 to
fifteen people full-time staff to keep that yacht in tip-top shape that is a
very expensive toy you can see our ship as it now begins to dominate the frame
every time I zoom in on it it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger and
all the tourist shops are along the pier they're willing to sell us anything and
everything we want duty-free of course doesn't mean it's profit free just
duty-free but beautiful calm day there wasn't a lick of wind at the bottom down
here it's just so calm I wouldn't want to be going up these cable cars in a
windy day but the day we were there the Sunday morning calm as can be quiet
peaceful and just a delight absolute delight get the chance to go to st.
Thomas do it you'll you'll like it you'll find it quite quite nice quite
appealing and we had no complaints from the folks who were on the cruise with us
here we go coming down to the final of the ride and if you like my channel
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