When we left Port Canaveral last night, about 3 hours late due to the computer problems caused by the power failure, the Captain said that they would be able to go faster during the night to still arrive at Fort Lauderdale on time at 7 AM. I woke up about 6 AM and...
Today will be our last full day of the cruise as well as our final day in port. We usually prefer the final day to be a sea day since we can start packing throughout the day and we seem to be less rushed. We arrived in Port Canaveral at 8 AM and would depart at 7 PM...
We were greeted this morning by a long wake extending toward the horizon as we continued our southerly track toward Port Canaveral. The seas continue to be smooth and the temperatures are warming up nicely. There is something special about staring into a ship’s wake...
As we continued our journey south, the weather became nicer, with blue puffy clouds and calmer seas. It still wasn’t quite warm enough for us to take advantage of our larger than normal aft facing deck. We are in cabin 4176 which we selected some time ago since we...
We arrived at the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal in Boston before 8am and we were cleared to go ashore shortly thereafter. I was intrigued by the name Black Falcon Cruise Terminal, and learned that it is also the name of the street that runs alongside the terminal, so...
The poor weather earlier in the cruise were a distant memory as we arrived in Portland to another wonderful day. Today we would be taking a Craft Cruise Excursion visiting the Maine Fiberarts Center followed by 3 yarn shops with some time for a local lunch. This was...
Bar Harbor would be our first and only tender port. We were assigned a closer anchorage so our boat ride would be less than 10 minutes. There was an NCL ship anchored further out that probably had a 20 minute tender ride. Since this was our first USA port, we were...
After 2 unscheduled sea days we arrived in Halifax last night and were looking forward to our day ashore. The temperature was in the high fifties to low sixties with clear, blue skies. The poor weather of the last few days was a fading memory. Craft Cruises arranged a...
The weather started to clear in the morning and the winds and seas calmed down considerably since the peak gusts the previous evening. We spent the morning in our cabin relaxing until it was time for me to head out to the Texas Hold’em tournament at 11:30. There is...
We woke up at 7 am to torrential rain, high winds (50 knots plus) and heavy seas. It certainly didn’t look like we would be in port in less than 1 hour and sure enough – the Captain came on the public address system at 7:30 and made what was pretty apparent by looking...