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Jade Mountain-St Lucia

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Infinity Pools & Endless Horizons - Caribbean Maritime Adventure 🧭 ⚙️ Infinity Pools & Endless Horizons A Caribbean Maritime Honeymoon Adventure The Honeymoon continues with another 21 DAZE at sea—My bucket list for Infinity Pools is getting shorter—with three pools down this month: Curacao, St Maarten yesterday and today in St Lucia. Love illusions? Swimming? 🏝️ Jade Mountain Resort - St. Lucia The Jade Mountain Resort in St. Lucia has an infinity pool in every room. Where the endless blue of the pool meets the endless blue of the Caribbean Sea, creating a perfect illusion of floating on the horizon itself. ...

St Maarten- Divi Little Bay

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From Zero to Infinity - A Nautical Journey From Zero To Infinity ⚓ ⚓ ⚓ A Maritime Journey Through Paradise 🧭 Captain Ed Reif Your smooth sailing navigator through the Caribbean waters. No charts needed, just seasoned wisdom from this sage captain who knows every current, every wind, and every secret harbor in these tropical seas. ⚓ Island Beacon - Guiding Ships Home 🚢 Maritime Video Fleet 🚢 ...

Carribean Blue-Sweet Dreams Are Made Of These

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Captain Ed Reif - A Global Maritime Adventure Captain Ed Reif Navigator of Global Adventures Maritime Wisdom When you find yourself in rough waters, stop rowing against the current— From playing high-stakes poker in Macau's glittering harbors to doubling for Terry O'Quinn in Hawaii's mysterious islands, it's all been about navigating the LOST horizons of adventure. "Every port has its story, every voyage its lesson. The sea doesn't care about your past—only your courage to sail forward." Tales from the Seven Seas ...

No Noose Is Good News

Foreign Land / Cabo San Lucas Cabo Marlins Time Flies When You're Having Rum One photograph. One year later. A field note about marlin fishing, Mexican sunsets, and the stories that outlast the paperwork. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Here is a picture from one year ago this month in Cabo San Lucas. Time flies when you're having rum. I like writing about Mexico. I just do not like the paperwork. Sometimes the best stories come from the adventures we live rather than the documents we file. Why fill out forms when you can fill up your memory banks with marlin tales and Mexican sunsets? Field Note The writer's dilemma ...

Same Ship Different Day-The Right Mistake

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Every day I get to go to work---on a cruise ship! It is the In to my Sane-Doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. The actual quote is: Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Like poker---sometimes making the right mistake pays off. I rather be lucky than skillful. Remember , The Color of Money lyrics, " It's in the way that you use it..It comes and it goes..."   I think of Paul Newman's  statement "The extraordinary role that luck plays in all our lives..." " Luck is an art . Luck just marches by any number of people, and they're looking in any direction but where luck is. I guess I know how to look in the right direction." Paul Newman I wrote about this in relation to Poker in 2008, The number #1 thing I hate about the game I love . The MS Noordam and I are starting another 21 Daze in Ther Carribean Highlights From The past 21 days: ▼  From Zero To Inf...

From Zero To Infinity-Pools That Blow Your Mind

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Global Infinity Pool Collection - From Zero to Infinity 🧭 ⚙️ Global Infinity Collection From Zero to Infinity - Maritime Pool Adventures The Rolls Royce of the Swimming Pool Universe 🏊‍♂️ 🌊 ∞ The God Molecule Discovery Found the God Molecule in Curacao. In this Zero Edge optical illusion of seemingly endless water. Where the boundaries between pool and ocean dissolve into pure maritime magic. Visually stunning and always located on amazing locations, Infinity pools are surely the most beautiful man-made pools in existence. These...

Curacao - Renaissance Man

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Playing the game of staged authenticity in the tourist themed spaces of  The Renaissance Curacao Resort .It's got Caribbean charm combined with European sophistication. Built around the historic setting of the Rif Fort, the copy is better than the original . Set amidst the color and beauty of the historic Dutch Caribbean city of Willemstad, the power of new is in full view. H8 the game,not the player(s).

Bonaire -Shawshank Redemption

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Action Sustains Hope Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying Besides The Godfather , Shawshank is my favorite movie- It is about Hope and Action going  hand in hand. Andy worked on his wall for 19 years and in the mean time made improvements to his surroundings that benefitted not only himself, but the lives of everyone around him. If you are going through hell-keep moving in a positive direction.Hell is not just other people; it is other people's thoughts about you.

ABC Islands-It Ain't Much If It Ain't Dutch

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As good as it gets, all of these Caribbean islands  have white sandy shorelines with the same New Yorkers you might be fighting with for parking spaces back home only this time it's beach chairs.  ABC Aruba Bonaire and Curacao  Actually BCA- that is the order we are sailing. Little Amsterdam, or Willemstad  in Curacao on  Thanksgiving.  I always like sailing to the Netherlands Antilles.Ten Years ago I came here with fifty dollars and left with $300. Now that's how they vacation in The Netherlands or is this Venezuela? They sell the paradise experience real well here.   Last year, on Crystal was amazing. Two years   before on MSC.  A is For Aruba  They speak a lot more Dutch here (in Aruba) than I expected. There's a lot of casinos, and a lot of the online poker/sportsbook sites who set up -offshore-shops. B is for Bonaire, and I  haven't been there yet. So tomorrow I am looking forward to a  Life Is A Beach day ...

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