Steve and Cathy's Blog

Steve woke up thinking that there had been a time change from Atlantic to Eastern, which would have set the clocks back an hour (essentially ‘gaining’ the hour we had ‘lost’ early in the cruise). He woke up very early. He thinks it’s 4am.  Cathy arises around 6:30am, and we decide then that breakfast should be taken in the Grand Dining Room. On our way there around 8:00am, we discover that the time change is for tomorrow

We are heading back to Miami. We are in the Old Bahama Channel, with Cuba at least twelve miles (the very last thing we would want is to wander into their territorial waters) on our port side. The ship is traveling at almost twenty nautical miles per hour, a pretty good clip. We’ve covered approximately 280 miles since we left St. Barts, and that leaves another 800 to go to reach the Port of Miami at

We arrive as scheduled at 7:00am. It is a beautiful, warm day, as they all have been on this cruise. It is no wonder that the Caribbean is mobbed with tourists and cruise ships during the winter, which is the annual dry season here. This is the view from our stateroom balcony, in a three-photo series: 7:00am Pain de Sucre, St. Barts 10:00am Pain de Sucre 3:00pm Pain de Sucre, St. Barts We are at anchor, as