- The Journey Begins – The 2018 Grand World Voyage
- Leaving San Diego for Fort Lauderdale
- Arriving in Fort Lauderdale and our first day
- Fort Lauderdale – Day 2
- Day 1 – The Adventure Begins
- Day 2 – Our First Sea Day – Abba Fabulous!
- Day 3, Georgetown, Grand Cayman
- Day 4, At Sea En Route Puerto Limon (San Jose), Costa Rica
- Day 5, Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
- Day 6, Transit the Panama Canal
- Day 7, Fuerte Amador, Panama
- Day 8, At Sea
- Day 9, At Sea
- Day 10, At Sea
- Day 11, At Sea
- Day 12, At Sea
- Day 13, At Sea – Enroute to Nuku Hiva
- Day 14, At Sea, Enroute to Nuku Hiva
- Day 15, At Sea – Enroute to Nuku Hiva
- Day 16, Taiohae, Nuku Hiva, French Polynesia
- Day 17, At Sea
- Day 18, Avatoru, Rangiroa, French Polynesia
- Day 19, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
- Day 20, Mooera, French Polynesia
- Day 21, Bora Bora, French Polynesia
- Day 22 – At Sea
- Day 23, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
- Day 24, At Sea
- Day 25 – Alofi, Niue
- Day 26 – At Sea – Crossed Dateline – Jan 29th GONE!
- Day 27 – At Sea
- Day 28 – At Sea
- Day 29 – Auckland, NZ
- Day 30 – Tauranga – 3 Feb 2018
- Day 31 – Napier
- Day 32, At Sea – Super Bowl Monday
- Day 33, Port Chalmers, Dunedin
- Day 34, Fjordlands National Park – Milford Sound
- Day 35 – At Sea – Enroute Sydney
- Day 36 – At Sea
- Day 37 – Sydney, Australia
- Day 38 – Sydney, Australia
- Day 39 – At Sea
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- Day 40, Hobart, Tasmania
- Day 41, At Sea
- Day 42, At Sea
- Day 43 – Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
- Day 44 – Adelaide, South Australia
- Day 45 – At Sea
- Day 46 – At Sea
- Day 47 – Albany, Western Australia
- Day 48 – 21 Feb Perth
- Day 49 – Perth Yarn Crawl
- Day 50 – At Sea
- Day 51 – At Sea
- Day 52 – At Sea
- Day 53 – Benoa, Bali
- Day 54 – Benoa – Bali
- Day 55 – At Sea
- Day 56 – At Sea
- Day 57 – At Sea
- Day 58, Puerto Princesa
- Day 59, – At Sea
- Day 60, Manila, Philippines
- Day 61, Manila, Philippines
- Day 62 – At Sea
- Day 63 – Hong Kong
- Day 64, Hong Kong
- Day 65 – At Sea
- Day 66 – At Sea
- Day 67 – Phu My, Vietnam
- Day 68 – Siem Reap (ms Amsterdam at Sea)
- Day 69 – Siem Reap
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- Day 70 – Singapore
- Day 71 – At Sea
- Day 72 – Phuket
- Day 73 – At Sea
- Day 74 – At Sea – Enroute to Sri Lanka
- Day 75 – Columbo, Sri Lanka
- Day 76 – At Sea – Enroute to the Seychelles
- Day 77 – At Sea
- Day 78 – At Sea
- Day 79 – Victoria, Seychelles
- Day 80 – At Sea
- Day 81 – At Sea
- Day 82 – St Denis – Reunion Island
- Day 83 – At Sea
- Day 84 – At Sea
- Day 85 – At Sea
- Day 86 – Maputo – Safari Day 1
- Day 87 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 2
- Day 88 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 3
- Day 89 – Kambaku River Sands – Safari Day 4
- Day 90 – Cape Town, South Africa
- Day 91, Cape Town, South Africa
- Day 92 – At Sea
- Day 93, Walvis Bay, Namibia
- Day 94 – At Sea
- Day 95 – At Sea
- Day 96 -Luanda, Angola
- Day 97 – At Sea
- Day 98 – At Sea
- Day 99 – Crossing the Equator
- Day 100 – At Sea
- Day 101 – At Sea
- Day 102 – Banjul, Gambia
- Day 103 – Dakar, Senegal
- Day 104 – At Sea
- Day 105, Praia – Cape Verde
- Day 106 – At Sea
- Day 107 – At Sea
- Day 108 – At Sea
- Day 109 – At Sea – April 23, 2018
- Day 110 – At Sea
- Day 111 – San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Day 112 – At Sea
- Day 113 – At Sea
- Day 114 – Fort Lauderdale
- 2018 World Cruise Entertainers
Late Sleepers
Since our tour was cancelled we could sleep in for a bit since we now didn’t have any reason to get ashore at any particular time.
One of the down sides of a Grand World Voyage is that 80% of the ship is 4 star mariner or higher which means that priority tendering is basically meaningless. Tender tickets would be available at the wine bar starting around 10 AM.
The weather was lousy which made it even easier to not try and get ashore early. We were hoping that it would clear a little later in the day, but it would stay cloudy with sporadic rain showers during our entire visit.
When everyone has priority – No one has priority
Tendering started at 10:00 but around 10:15 or so we were notified that one of the tenders broke down requiring people to get off that tender and reboard another tender. Since we weren’t in any hurry to get ashore, this didn’t bother us at all, but we were glad we didn’t have a private shore excursion arranged that had a hard meeting time ashore. They didn’t call for open tendering until about 12:30.
We headed down to the tender platform around 2:50 and caught a tender in about 5 minutes. We were ashore by 3:10.
My alternate plan was to visit the National Museum, but forgot to check that the museum closed at 2PM on Saturdays. Oh Well.
Grand Cayman Walkabout
We ended up walking up and down the main street, stopping in a few of the many gift shops before we ended up at a restaurant called Rackams Waterfront Bar and Grill. We ordered some Pork Sliders and Conch Fritters, along with a beer and an iced tea. The food was pretty good, service was fine, but its not a place I would particularly seek out.
There were several other ships visiting today and on the way back we walked past the other tender landing areas. The security guards for each beckoned us to board their tender, until we queried “Amsterdam?” and then they waved us off.
The last tender was 5:30 and we were at the tender pier around 5:10. We only waited a few minutes for a tender to arrive and we were back on the ship in a few minutes.
SailAway
The SailAway was held in the Crows Nest – and while we normally attend the SailAways, the ones in the Crows Nest don’t have the same vibe as those on the open decks and we didn’t stop by.
Dinner tonight had a Caribbean Jerked Pork Chop which many folks at our table ordered and was very good.
David and Dawn Meyer
David Meyer, along with his wife Dawn, performed in the Queens Lounge this evening. He plays a Xylophone Synthesizer, which has you may suspect is a Xylophone connected to a Synthesizer which David has connected together to create some amazing sounds. His wife, Dawn, is a dancer and she danced along to his music for a couple of numbers. There was an amazing couple of songs were he played music by waving his hands thru the light of laser beams.
The show was quite entertaining, and we enjoyed it very much. We had a chance to chat with them for a few minutes afterwards and they are very nice.
Back in our cabin, we discovered another pillow gift – a Moleskine Travel Journal. (photo on the blog). The ship wisely decided to hand out these first two gifts early in the cruise so we could enjoy them on this journey.
Clocks go back an hour tonight!
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