Curacao is part of three islands and together with Aruba and Bonaire it forms the ABC islands often called the Dutch Caribbean.
We arrived at 8 am and were quickly cleared to go ashore. We went down to get our clubs and we were off. There is Uber but no drivers were available so we took a taxi. John dropped us off and would pick us up later. The Blue Bay Curacao Resort was less than 10 miles from the pier. We arrived early enough to hit a few buckets of balls. Each bucket contains 17 balls. I found that very strange. Who counts these? The driving range attendant does. He dropped 17 balls in each bucket.
Beautiful, hot, sunny and windy. These islands of the Dutch Caribbean are exposed to the eastern trade winds. This is always pointed out in any description of these islands.
Challenging and fun to play course. The wind did play a role here. Probably like this all the time. We finished about 2 pm and sat outside and had lunch. A storm came through on hole 18 but it was over in a few minutes. We enjoyed lunch and our driver was back at 2:45 pm to take us to our ship. We dropped the clubs off and walked back to a drugstore in town to pick up a few items.
The ship did take off during dinner and there was an obvious storm we were heading in to. Captain gave a warning about using handrails in the hallways. The ship will be rolling.
We were wiped out from golfing in the heat and called it an early night.…