Blogs from Caribbean, Oceans and Seas - page 4

Today is the second sea day of this 7 day cruise, so time for some relaxation. First we had to attend the back to back meeting. This was very informative with essential guidelines to re-enter USA to clear customs and immigration prior to re-boarding for our Transatlantic journey home to Barcelona Spain. During our time on this cruise, we have met many people that said they were travelling onto Barcelona, but a lot of them seem to be missing from this meeting. Maybe when you have done one before it is easier, but this is our first back to back so we are still learning. The two presenters did a good job of explaining the procedure for Saturday morning and were happy to answer any additional questions. It turns out we will be able to get ... read more

Rough seas greeted our first day out. We were running though what is known as the "Tongue of the Ocean", the Bahamas passage between Andros Island to the west and New Providence, Exuma and Long Island to the east. It's called the Tongue because a deep sea trench makes a curled tongue-like formation between the islands. As seas were rough and the ship rolling, I guess the Tongue was giving us a licking! Andros Island was clearly visible to starboard. Later in the day and further along the passage, Rum Cay was visible to port. Sunday evening was the first Formal Night. Dinner was Lobster Tail with a Fried Oysters appetizer. After dinner Susan and I enjoyed the Latin music ensemble in the Havana Bar. The ship's doctor joined them on bongos! (The quiet and laid ... read more

We are back at sea today. Today was for shipboard activities, and only the few things we wanted to do - the rest was for REST. We actually got up a little early for a sea day and we went to the dining room for one more serving of formal breakfasts. We sat with two other couples whom we have met before during the cruise – maybe we have been here too long and it’s time to head on home. Anyway, Janet had another helping of Eggs Benedict and David had a Ham & Cheese Omelet. After Breakfast, Janet went to the Knitters & Knatters session. She found one person who has been in her group all this time, but who is transferring to another ship and heading to California through the Panama Canal – their ... read more

Hello. This is our 5thand final Sea Day between Salvador and Barbados. Tomorrow we start a string of days where we will go island hopping, so this is our final rest period for a while. We slept in until almost 9:00 and by the time we went to breakfast it was 10:00. We had such a lazy/restful morning that Janet didn’t even get to her knitting meeting today. We went back to the cabin and our steward had not gotten to our cabin yet. We had decided to stay in the room and watch the movie “Sully” at 11:15, so we gave Renaldo the day off. We told him everything was fine and he could straighten up when we went to dinner tonight. Anyway, we watched the movie and it was interesting. We went up to ... read more

No rest for the weary. We still have more places to go and more things to do on this wonderful cruise. Tuesday, we are reflecting back upon our second port of call: Falmouth, Jamaica. Get up and get ready to disembark into this interesting town. It's an easy jaunt from the ship to the town. Beauty surrounds us. Our ship is docked adjacent to the "tourist" part of this town. You can see it towering over the various markets. We wandered in and out of the shops: jewelry, liquor, t-shirts and then repeat that over and over again. Lulu was gleeful to get some of her beauty shots in. We found a small Margaritaville where Cory and Lulu posed for my continuous snapshot-shooting. The funny fellow seated in the painted chair next to Cory had been ... read more