CRUISES ON HOLLAND AMERICA LINE
“MS Noordam” (33,970 tons), built 1984, Holland America Line: 7 Day Alaskan Cruise, *Vancouver, B.C., Canada to Alaska (*Ketchikan, *Juneau, Skagway, *Glacier Bay & *Sitka) & return (July 1988) Queen Charlotte Sound, the Inside Passage & North Pacific.
Ann and I.
“MS Statendam” (55,451 tons), built 1993, Holland America Line: 7 Day Western Caribbean Cruise, Fort Lauderdale, Florida to *Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island, UK; *Ocho Rios, Jamaica; *Playa del Carmen, Tulum (Yucatan Peninsula), and the Island of *Cozumel, Mexico, and return to Fort Lauderdale (December 21-28, 1995), The Atlantic, Strait of Florida, Gulf of Mexico to the Western Caribbean Sea. Ann and I.
“MS Rotterdam” (62,000 tons), built 1997, maiden year voyage and new flagship of the Holland America Line: 12 Day Scandinavia & Russia Cruise; London and *Dover, England; *Oslo, Norway; *Arhus, Silkeborg, (Mid-Jutland) and *Copenhagen, Denmark; *Warnemunde (Rostock), and Berlin, (Local TV Interview on the new Berlin, after the wall), Germany; *Kalmar and *Stockholm, Sweden; *Helsinki, Finland; and *St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Petrodvorets, and Pushkin, Russia (August 22 to September 3, 1998), The English Channel, the North Sea, The Oslo Fjord, the Baltic Sea, and the Gulf of Finland. Post Cruise Port: Four days in Copenhagen. Ann and I, Tim & Judy Stevens, Tom & Margaret Kapinos.
“MS Noordam” (33,970 tons), built 1984, Holland America Line, for a 16 Day Panama Canal and South America Explorer Cruise out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, bound for Valparaiso, Chile with stops at *Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island, UK; *San Blas Islands, the Panama Canal, *Balboa, and Panama City, Panama; *Manta and Quito, Equador; *Callao, Lima, *General San Martin, (Pisco) Paracas National Park, and Ica, Peru; *Arica, and Naranto, *Coquimbo, and La Serena, *Valparaiso, Vina del Mar, and Santiago, Chile. (January 2 to January 21, 2000). Pre-Cruise Port: Fort Lauderdale for one day. Post Cruise Port: Santiago for three days before flying home. The North Atlantic Ocean, the Straits of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Panama Canal, the North Pacific Ocean, crossing the Equator, and South Pacific Ocean, Paracas Bay. Ann, and I, and Justin Mark.
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“MS Prinsendam”, (38,000 tons), built 1988, her maiden year voyage for Holland-America Line, formerly the Seabourn Line’s MS Seabourn Sun, originally the Royal Vikings Line’s MS Royal Viking Sun, for an eighteen day South and East Africa voyage from Cape Town, South Africa bound for Mombasa, Kenya. Port Calls at *Cape Town (Constantia, Cape of Good Hope, Clifton Bay, Bantry Bay, Champs Bay, Hout Bay, Oceanview, Stellenbosch, Fronschook, Hermanus, Simon Town, Gordon’s Bay, !Cape Agulhas!); *Durban; and *Richards Bay (KwaZula-Natal, and Shakaland), South Africa. *La Possession and Saint Denis, Isle de Reunion-(French), and *Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius (the Mascarene Islands), Isle de Tromelin (French Weather Station); *Hell-ville, (Nose-Be), Madagascar, *Moroni, Islamic Republic of Comoros, *Zanzibar (Island of Zanzibar), in Tanzania, *Mombasa, Masai Mara (the Great Rift Valley), and Narobi), Kenya; Zurich, Switzerland. (September 21 to October 18, 2002). South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mozambique Channel. Pre-Cruise Port: Cape Town for five days. Post-Cruise: Mombasa for one day, the Masai Mara (Intrepids Safari Camp), for four days and one day in Narobi. !Passed the Southernmost tip of the continent of Africa at 8PM, on Friday evening, September 27th. Ann and I. Camera: Nikon N80 with Tamron 24-135mm lens, and Nikon 70-210mm lens, using Kodak 200, 400 and 800 Speed Film (the 800 all on Safari). Met Laurel and Steve.