Day Sixty One - March 7 Last evening the cruise director made an annoucement that the seas might be a rocking overnight. You could certainly feel the motion of the ocean. Again we were in port prior to our arrival time of 09:00. In port today was the Mein Schiff II, a German based ship with guest capacity of 2,900. The Norwegian Dawn also sailed into port while we were at breakfast. Its guest capacity 2,340. As well as these ships H.M.S. Medway of the Royal Na...

Day 60 - March 6 A very short blog. We arrived at 08:00 but no independent guests were allowed off on the island. This is the second island that did not allow us off the ship unless you are on a ship tour or a sanctioned government sponsored independent tour. They call this an island bubble and Covid rules have sometimes been changing by the day and/or hour. If we had known, we would have prebooked a tour but oh well another sea day. So off we went to ar...

Day Fifty Eight and Fifty Nine March 4-5 Today is the start of two days in Bridgetown commencing with the PCR test our fifth by my recollection. The harbour was filled with Cruise ships from RCCL - Explorer of the Seas (Guest capacity 4,290), Regent Cruise Line Seven Seas Mariner (Guest Capacity 700) and P&O Cruises - The Azure (Guest Capacity 3,100). Only The Regent ship is of similar size to our ship. Janice had taken our friend Hedy to the Ophtamolo...

Day Fifty Seven - March 3 Our arrival time was scheduled for 11:00 but we arrived around 10:00. The authorities came on board and the ship was cleared around 11:15. We are docked in the port of Kingstown which is the capital of St. Vicent and the Grenadines. The island has a population of approximarely 111,000 which has remained constant since the early 1990s. It's main industry is tourism but not today which I will explain later. Our ship is docked along s...

Day 54 and 55 - February 28 and March 1 OK the blog location seems to be correct today. Our arrival time into Aruba was scheduled for 08:00 but the ship again docked early and mooring ropes in place by 06:30. We will be spending February 28 and March 1 here. Our Captain hates to be late so we are ore likely to be early. Aruba is a very small island measuring 20 miles long and 6 miles wide. The strong Eastern trade winds create strong wind gusts on a regul...