Our clocks went back another hour overnight which was great but we were awake at 5.30am. No need to get up as we have a sea day. As we are now in the Pacific Ocean we no longer see the sunrise but it is light quite early. We have breakfast in the dining room and then go to hear a bit about our next 2 destinations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. It's clear we need to book a land tour as anything worth seeing is a fair way from the port. That decision made we return t...

While Australia was sleeping we were doing a full transit of the Panama Canal. What a day! We woke at 5.30am, well we were actually awake way before then but was much too early to start moving about. It was still dark but we could see lights in the distance indicating that we were slowly approaching the Panama Canal. We witnessed a beautiful sunrise as we downed our breakfast. The Horizon Court was abuzz with anticipation as everyone was preparing themselves for ...

Today we arrive in Cartagena (cart-a-hey-na) Colombia. It's a large city old and new. Not knowing too much about it though and having been advised that there will be persistent vendors that follow you and harass you to buy, we decided to do a tour with the ship. We just needed to do this to remind us why we don't do ship tours. Our tour guide's name is Jhon (not a spelling error) and English is not his first, second or third language! He is very difficult to und...

Waking up early this morning to the lights of Aruba coming into view. We dock at 7am and meet our snorkeling tour at 7.45am. We are going on a catamaran to 2 snorkeling sites. The first is about 30 minutes cruise away along the coastline of Aruba. It is a beautiful day, warm and sunny. At the first stop we can snorkel for half an hour. The water is a perfect temperature and it's clear. There are many many fish. It's fabulous. Next stop is only 10 minutes away and...

This morning the ocean is so flat and calm. It's like the sea is thick oil no white water even from the wash. As the sun pierces the clouds it creates glimmering streaks on the water. The gym is very busy this morning so Glenn joins me on level 7 to walk on the outer deck.The Island princess was in dry dock last year and they added extra cabins at the back of the ship so its no longer possible to do a lap of the outer deck as such. You either cut through the insi...