They have really reduced the number of tourist allowed (hence an increase in price). We heard that it used to be that you would land on a beach and basically queue for walk around the island paths. Now I think it is regulated that you need one naturalist for every 20 guest (don't quote me). We had 2 naturalist for a 20 person cruise ship. Every day we would have a land or water excursion in after breakfast and one after lunch. On the land it was just us. A few times we were on beaches with other groups.
Our ship had two sister ships. One was under repair. the other we saw all the time. There was a Carnival cruise at the same time we saw every other day. they had about 100 people. They had to anchor pretty far out. we could get within five minutes of the beach.
The naturalists were vary strict with where you could go once on the islands. Got to respect that.
I feel like my posts are all over the place. There were a lot of awesome things I want to say. I hope these aren't too scatterbrained.
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