From ship to shore

An account of a girl who lives on the high seas.

February 05, 2007

We just keep coming back to the end of the world


We spent another day on rocky seas before docking in Ushuaia for the night. This brings us to the subject of overnights. Overnights are like sunshine and lollipops with penguins sliding down rivers of chocolate while singing. Ok, well they’re pretty great for the most part. After quite the last few days, the crew really needed to have some extra time on land, so having an overnight was just the ticket. We had a nice dinner and evening out at Che Guevara’s restaurante. I was tuckered out so after a drink at the Irish Pub, (for some reason the crew do not seem to branch out as much as they should) I went back to the ship for some much needed z’s. I missed the spectacle of one of the Romanian Casino guys getting drunk and deciding he wanted to swim at the end of the world. He didn’t make a wise choice to jump off the pier between the Carnival Infinity tender and ours, and was promptly fired and sent home.

The ship’s itinerary at this point had to be changed, and Antarctica was taken out. Then it was put back in. Then taken out along with St. Lucia and Grand Turk and our own island which everyone and there dog had already been to; Half Moon Caye was added. Then we lost our overnights in Rio de Janeiro and Manaus. Then the overnights were in again and Recife taken out! The guests thought we were lying to them when we said we didn’t know where we were going. So, the new 2007 Antarctica & South America Grand Voyage Revised, 3rd edition itinerary now looks like:

2/10 Stanley, Falkland Islands (U.K.) or Islas Malvinas (Argentina) depending on who you speak to
2/11 At Sea
2/12 Buenos Aires, Argentina (Overnight
2/13 Buenos Aires, Argentina
2/14 Montevideo, Uruguay
2/15 At Sea
2/16 At Sea
2/17 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Overnight)
2/18 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2/19 At Sea
2/20 Salvador, Brazil
2/21 At Sea
2/22 At Sea
2/23 Fortaleza, Brazil
2/24 At Sea
2/25 Belem, Brazil
2/26 Scenic Cruising the Amazon River & Crossing the Equator
2/27 Santarem, Brazil
2/28 Boca da Valeria, Brazil
3/1 Manaus, Brazil (Overnight)
3/2 Manaus, Brazil
3/3 Parintins, Brazil
3/4 Cruising the Amazon River & Crossing the Equator
3/5 At Sea
3/6 Devil’s Island, French Guiana
3/7 At Sea
3/8 Castries, Saint Lucia
3/9 At Sea
3/10 Grand Turk
3/11 At Sea
3/12 Ft. Lauderdale