Day 107 - at sea
Friday was our 3rd of 8 sea days. It started with a nice sunrise and calm seas then mid morning things started to get rougher. We were headed into another storm.
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| Where we were first thing this morning. We are the blue dot. |
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| I never actually saw the sun because of all the clouds. Just a bright spot |
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| another storm in our path, We are north-east of the red/orange area |
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| The Captain has changed from our originally planned path to try avoiding the worst of the storm. The top line is our original planned path. |
Day 105 - at Sea (first of 8 sea days headed home to Florida)
Wednesday was a sad day on the Amsterdam. As we sailed through rough sea as we passed through the north side of a storm (10 - 12 ft swells) we were informed that there was a missing passenger. An older lady who was last seen about 1:30 in the morning could not be found and was presumed to have gone overboard. They started looking for her on the ship just before 7 AM and at 9 AM, the captain turned the ship around ad started retracing the course we had sailed overnight. The search was being coordinated by the Irish and British search and rescue services. After 5 hours of sailing back towards were the woman had last been seen, it was determined that the Amsterdam could not get to the search area in time to be of help so we were released to continue our voyage to Ft. Lauderdale.
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| This is our ships position about 8:20 PM. The 2 darker yellow slightly thicker parts of our course are track the 2 places we turned around. |
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| rough seas |
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| sunset |
Day 104 - Bantry, Ireland
Tuesday we were in our last port of call for our Grand World Voyage - Bantry, Ireland. Bantry is at the end of a bay on the south-west coast of Ireland. It is a small fishing and tourist town of about 2700 people.
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| first sight of land as we sail up Bantry Bay |
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| View of out ship from inside the tendern |
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| Bandry harbor |
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| we went for a drive through the countryside |
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| sheep in a field |
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| One of the markers along the Wild Atlantic Way which is a tourism route along the entire west coats of the island of Ireland |
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| another WAW signpost |
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| We visited the town of Schull |
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| all signs in Ireland have both Gaelic and English |
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| Our ship sitting in Bantry Bay |
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| In the harbor of Bantry |
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| It was low tide |
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| The pub I visited |
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| a tender leaving to take guests back to the ship |
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| these of floats on nets that they grow mussels on |
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| Leaving Ireland fot our 8 1/2 day sail back home to Ft. LauserdaleAdd caption |
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| last sights of land in the foggy/rainy weather |
Day 103 - Cork, Ireland
Monday we docked in the town of Ringaskiddy which along with Cobh are the ports for Cork Ireland. Kathy took the excursion: "Waterford: City, County and Crystal". She visited Ther House of Waterford Crystal" (sorry no pictures). I was net feeling well in the morning so I stayed on the ship until after lunch then I took the shuttle bus to the town center of Cork and walked around some.
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| Ringaskiddy behind us, to the left of the River Lee entrance |
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| Port town of Cobh across the harbor. The Serenade of the Seas was docked there |
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| The City Hall |
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| the River Lee runs through Cork |
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| along the River Lee |
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