end of cruise-- Ft Lauderdale enroute home

arrival by 6am in Port Everglades.. off the ship by 8am  as we start the drive back home... a lot of Easter week traffic heading up I-95 made for a slow go at some locations.. back home by 8pm

Port Everglades Cruise Docks Ft Lauderdale, Florida

I-95 truck art in Georgia

Charleston's Ravenel Bridge

Sunset along Rt 31 North Myrtle Beach 20 minutes from home

Day 28--Half Moon Cay, Bahamas

arrival at 7am at the anchorage off  Half Moon Cay, Bahamas Holland America's private island.. very light winds allowed us to land via the ship's tenders this time around .. sharing the island with another HAL ship-- the Nieuw Amersterdam.. I went ashore on the first tender alone  with Pat ..Peter and Margaret meeting me over there about an hour later.. all the way down past the last Life-Guard station I made my claim to a nice quiet out of the way location..  the other ship brought over 2K pax .. we only had about a thousand..  still quiet thruout the day where we were.. the weather was perfect in the high 70's with a nice breeze.. water was magnificent crystal clear blue.. what a place..  we packed up and were on the tender to the ship by 2pm --sailaway was at 230pm..  the end of a 28 day cruise sure does come up fast these days..

oh so nice and quiet

Margaret..Pat.. Peter as we make our way off the beach

the beach Bar-B-Q

our friend Raja

Day 27-- At Sea HAPPY EASTER

Happy Easter .. Mass at 8am...another day at sea as we pass by Haiti and Cuba enroute to Half Moon Cay, Bahamas.. an early morning lite wind was welcomed after the high winds of yesterday.. a nice sunrise.. by 11am sunny blue skies but the high winds and choppy seas were back upon us once again.. it sure looks sketchy for our stop in Half Moon Cay tomorrow morning..  we shall see.. dinner in the Pinnacle once again this evening our 5th time on this cruise

Day 26--At Sea

winds were up to 53 kts as we left Cartagena last evening.. they continued into last nite and thruout the day today--  a lot of bouncing around..  Mariners lunch in the Dining Room.. couldn't sit out on the Navigation Deck-aft with the strong 50 kt winds --sunny blue skies day.. Captain said the winds will continue thru tomorrow noon..