At daybreak this morning we were still working our way northwestwards off the coast of Baja California. By mid-afternoon we still had some 260 miles to go to reach Los Angeles. This morning we took the opportunity to watch a cookery demonstration by the Executive Chef Antonio Constantino assisted by the Maitre d’Hotel Giuseppe Castino. …
Shortly after sunrise at 07:30 a.m. we were offshore from the Mexican port of Puerto Vallarta and the mouth of the Sea of Cortez which is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the long peninsular of Baja California. The sea is the mouth of the Colorado River that has carved its way across the southwest …
Today is another day at sea so we thought that we would take this opportunity to show you around the Coral Princess. At the start of the tour which lasted an hour, we are off Mexico and have had a rain shower during lunch. The ship is owned by Princess Cruises …
Today we are at sea and in the early morning, just before dawn, the ship was battling through some strong winds and big waves. We were experiencing another storm and we were informed by the Captain that the winds of 60mph would ease along with the swell and spray that was hitting the 15th deck. …
At 05:45 a.m. we arrived at Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. Smoke and a smell of burning was carried into the ship by the air-conditioning. This was the start of today’s sugar cane harvest. The dead leaves and scrub at the base of all of the plants, thousands of them in total, is set alight to clear …
Today we have been at sea on our journey to Guatemala. We have been very busy doing nothing! We have seen no ships at all but watched the sun from first light until 5:00 p.m. do its apparent journey from east to west around the ship. A highlight of this morning was the blowing onto …
We arrived in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, at first light (05:30a.m.) and at 7:00 a.m. we were on our way by coach to the Braulio Carrillo National Park which protects the rainforest in this region. The whole rainforest extends across the country from the Caribbean to the Pacific. The government of Costa Rica have determined that …
During the night we passed into another time zone which meant our clocks went back by one hour to -6 GMT. Today is a day at sea as we make our way from the Panama Canal to Puntarenas in Costa Rica. We anticipate being there early tomorrow. There has been very little to sea apart …
The terminal on the Island of Flamenco is incomplete so we were moored offshore and transferred to the terminal by a tender. The bus that took us to the rainforest village drove along the Amador Causeway which gave us sight of the Old Town of Panama which was built in 1671. This replaced the original …
We arrived at Panama at 6;15 a.m. and from the cabin window we could see illuminated ships waiting to go through the Atlantic entrance which is a breakwater at Colon which protects anchored ships from the northerly winds. Spoil from the canal was used to make this. Panama is the shape of a …