Dear Readers, My apologies but from a “few days” of the blog being down, it has now gone to more than a week. The Holland America Line Community Blog site/layout was supposed to migrate to a new location. All was to be accomplished in a few days but it seems that there is a hiccup somewhere. Because… read more of “28 March 2017; The…”
Dear Readers, The computer gurus and experts who ensure that the Hal community blogs and related publications work and continue to work both night and day are putting the blog in dry dock for an upgrade. During that period, I will not be able to post, my apologies, but same as a ship needs a… read more of “20 March 2017; Blog…”
The weather today is according to the weather forecast and thus everybody is happy. Very little wind to bother the ships arrival and nice and sunny during the day. At the terminal the temperature was even a few degrees lower than listed and that made for pleasant travel for the guests. Larger numbers always have… read more of “19 March 2017; Fort…”
Well the weather did what was forecast and in the course of last night, the wind came down to something more acceptable. 20 knots or so and that is what we are used to in this area. By 08.45 we had past Cabo San Antonio and turned to a North Easterly course and entered the… read more of “18 March 2017; At…”
Today we are having our first day at sea and are sailing on a North Westerly course heading towards the Yucatan Channel where the Caribbean Sea meets the Gulf of Mexico. It looks like that we were lucky with our call at Puerto Limon as the weather has turned for the worse. A strong cold… read more of “17 March 2017; At…”
Indeed the weather was with us today. Yesterday in the Canal the wind was already getting less and less and when we arrived this morning at the pilot station, there was no white cap to be seen. Just a little ripple indicating a wind force 1 to 2. That meant that during the night the… read more of “16 March 2017;…”
Today went sort of on schedule although we were not able to repeat the performance from last cruise when were docked by 15.00 hrs. in Colon. Now it was just before 17.00 hrs. and nothing we could do about it. It all depends on when we fit into the slot for the traffic going through… read more of “15 March 2017;…”
As was expected the wind disappeared the moment we curved southwards and followed the Colombian coast down to the Boca Chica pilot station. But because the cooler North Easterly wind had already been reducing itself in strength, it brought also less cool air to the area of Cartagena and thus the warm tropical air could… read more of “14 March 2017;…”
