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Welcome to our blog. We will be Posting daily notes and photos of things we see and do while traveling on the Ruby and Royal Princess cruise ships throughout the Eastern Caribbean, Southern Caribbean, and along the Amazon River.

Cruise posting will begin on January 9, 2010.


Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sail Away

Tonight we departed on our Southern Caribbean cruise at exactly 5:00pm with our new Captain, Tony Yeomans. He really isn’t new because this is his permanent ship and he just returned from vacation. Also, we have sailed with him several times previously.

The people of Fort Lauderdale were outside their homes and viewed our sail away from their balconies along the waterway as we departed. The Captain blew the ship’s whistle/horn in the traditional 3 bursts as we passed the homes in this photo. To our surprise, many of the shore side people had their own air-horns to blow back at us.


In the morning we will again attempt to visit Princess Cays in the Bahamas if the seas aren’t too rough. Will be going ashore on the ship’s tenders. The weather warmed up today to 73 degrees to 10 days ago.