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Travelling Artist - Jeanette Hedley

I make and teach art. The rest of the time, I travel. After Spain, England, Uganda, California and years of tour guiding, it was time for the next big adventure. Six months working for Carnival Cruise Lines. I did my first contract at sea from Dec 06 - May 07. My second contract was from Nov 07 - May 08. Then there was the one month stint Aug - Sept 08 on yet another ship.

At long last, I made enough money to just travel on my own. Oct - Dec 08 I travelled around South Africa.

But with my money spent and an inability to commit to Canadian winters, I am returning to the cruise world Jan - Jun 09.

More adventures to come . . .

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By Travelling Artist
January 25th 2010

Finding Birds and Freeing Turtles . . . North America » Mexico » Guerrero » Acapulco

The Sea Awaits

Today we’re back in Acapulco and I was able to get a pass for a tour I’ve been eyeing since coming to the Spirit. We started out driving through Acapulco with our guide telling us about the city and country. We went to the far end of the city in a direction I hadn’t been yet so that was interesting for me. Then we turned away from the bay and headed up over the mountain. We stopped at a lookout spot over the bay for some photos. About half an hour outside of Acapulco we reached our destination - “Three Sticks [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
January 21st 2010

Happenings At Sea: Whale Sightings, Helping Haiti and Storms . . . Oceans and Seas » Pacific

Helping Haiti

On this current run that I do every week, there are a LOT of sea days. Of each 8 day cruise, 4 days are spent at sea. That’s a big reason why my blog has been rather quiet in terms of port stories compared to other contracts. Days at sea are just filled with work and lots of it. When I’m not working, I’m eating or sleeping or maybe getting to read or watch TV for an hour or two. Not much interesting to say. But in the last week or so, there have been a few happenings at sea out [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
January 19th 2010

Snorkeling at Elephant Rock . . . North America » Mexico » Colima » Manzanillo

Approaching Elephant Rock

Today we’re in Manzanillo and a crew tour was offered. Of course I signed up. I was especially excited that the tour was offered in this port. Manzanillo is an industrial port, so there’s nothing to do right by the ship. You can take a shuttle into town for a bit of shopping, but not much. This port has been a solid internet day for me - either at a local restaurant or at the internet café. So I was very happy to get out and actually see something. It was a nice group of crew who had also signed up [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
January 18th 2010

Acapulco Sunset Sailaway . . . North America » Mexico » Guerrero » Acapulco

Acapulco Bay

Our regular itinerary has us in port in Acapulco from noon until 1am. We usually sail into the bay around 11am. And while this is a very late hour for normal people, when I work until the early morning hours and I sleep in the bottom of the ship where you don’t see daylight, I’ve never been able to take in the view of the sail into port. I’ve watched the sailaway, but that’s at night. This cruise however, our itinerary is swapped around and we’re in Acapulco during the daytime only. We sailed at 5pm local time, as the sun [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
January 9th 2010

Kayaking on Coyuca Lagoon . . . North America » Mexico » Guerrero » Acapulco

View from the Restaurant

The holiday season has officially passed. My co-director has gone home and I am on my own in the club. The number of youth onboard has gone down and we are now in “quiet” season. But considering that, I am so busy right now! While don’t have a large number of teens onboard, those who are participating in my program are there non-stop. There is always a group of them in the club, doing every activity. Of course, this is the way we want the program to run, so this is great. But I am so worn out! Adding to this, [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
December 25th 2009

Christmas On The Spirit . . . North America » Mexico » Guerrero » Zihuatanejo

Youth Programming Greetings

The holidays away from home are always difficult. You can’t help but think about everything you’re missing out on back home and just want to be with the people you love. But we do our best to have a good time on the ship. Christmas Eve, after we finished work (by which point it was after midnight, so really it was now Christmas day), our department gathered in the playroom for our gift exchange. All the presents were gathered under the tree set up for decoration. We’d pulled names a few weeks back and bought two gifts - a “small” (lower [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
December 24th 2009

Speedboat Adventure with the Teens on Coyuca Lagoon . . . North America » Mexico » Guerrero » Acapulco

Cruising the Lagoon

It’s Christmas Eve and I’m in Acapulco. And I’m working much of the day. But the upside is the first part of my work day is taking teens out on a tour, so at least I’m outside and enjoying the port. Today’s teen tour took us by bus through Acapulco. The streets were so busy with everyone doing last minute holiday things and going to wherever they would spend the holiday. All the shop windows had signs for Christmas sales and some street vendors were even selling decorations. Then we headed through the country side and out to Coyuca Lagoon. We [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
December 23rd 2009

The Carnival Holiday Show . . . Oceans and Seas » Pacific

Me & Clair

The holidays are here on the Carnival Spirit. For the three cruises leading up to Christmas, we’ve been doing the company’s Holiday Show. All of the youth programs get involved with the show, so our regular activity schedule has been interspersed with rehearsals. The show starts with the band playing a variety of Christmas songs. The dancers enter through the house aisles handing out candy canes to the audience. The singers sing, the dancers dance. Then it’s time for the kids . . . First the 9-11 year olds from Camp Carnival, along with Circle C (12-14 year olds) and Club [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
December 21st 2009

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas On The Ship . . . Oceans and Seas » Pacific

Enterring the Club

A few weeks back, right around when American Thanksgiving passed and Christmas commercials started playing non-stop, Clair (my co-director) and I started talking about little things we could do to decorate our club for the holidays. We picked up a couple of small things like wrapping paper and bows in San Diego and we borrowed lots of craft supplies from the children’s playroom. Soon after that, we learned that the office was issuing a challenge to the camp programs on the different ships for the best holiday décor. And then we went nuts . . . The true challenge was to [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
December 17th 2009

Melting at Villa Vera . . . North America » Mexico » Guerrero » Acapulco

Villa Vera

This week our regular itinerary is switched around a bit. Usually when we’re in Acapulco, we’re there from noon until 1am. With this itinerary, it’s 6am-5pm. The regular itinerary is perfect for crew like me who work late - I can sleep in, then have a full afternoon and early evening out before having to come back to work. So today, it meant getting up early in order to get a good chunk of a day outside. A group of us met in the morning and took a taxi to a hotel/resort called Villa Vera. They allow the public to come [View Full Entry]

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