After The Sea

Every voyage must come to a end, and this one on the Caribbean Princess is ending where it started at the Brooklyn cruise terminal.

Little did we know when we booked this passage that sailing to Greenland is a special event and Princess only does it once a year. This year it just so happened that the Caribbean Princess is  the biggest ship ever to have docked in Nuuk, Qauortoq, and Nanortalik. It was also the only voyage in several years to make the calls in all three ports. Our weather was excellent.

Seal Skull In Nanortalik

Greenland also has special rules for cruise ships, like speed limits, and perhaps the biggest rule they have,  is cruise ships cannot burn their regular fuel, of   heavy bunker oil and must use cleaner diesel fuel. It goes without saying that discharges of sewage and brown water are strictly prohibited.

In Alaska we used to have strict environmental protections from cruise ship pollution. We even had the Ocean Ranger program that put human inspectors on the ships to monitor just what is spewing out of the ships. But our koch brother employee/governor  replaced the working program with the cruise companies word that they  won’t pollute our waters.  Its just amazing what real countries can do, when they are not owned by oil companies.

Cod For Sale

In   Brooklyn, and it took no time at all to get off the ship and the wait was short  have our passports scanned by a regular employee of border and customs.  

Riding on the bus to the air terminal through the New York traffic we sped up to maybe 50 mph. It was faster than I had gone in weeks. I wasn't  scared at all  until the driver started bestowing his blessing on amerika, and his passengers too. Welcome back to superstition, and guns.