Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands visited Saba on Thursday 12 December. Saba is a Caribbean island which is the smallest special municipality of the Netherlands. In the morning, Princess Beatrix opened the Mary’s Point hiking trail in the new Mount Scenery National Park on Saba. The trail starts at Well’s Bay and continues to the abandoned settlement of Mary’s Point, founded in the seventeenth century. Afterwards, the Princess met with a number of local fishermen in the harbour. |