Awoke this morning docked at Red Hook, Brooklyn. This is the end of our first cruise. Views from the ship over Governor's Island to
the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan.
Weather a bit misty but very warm and humid with plenty of sun.
Today we are moving staterooms, their system is supposed to
make it easy to do so but it is plagued with delay and frustration, especially
here in New York because of extra Coast Guard and Immigration procedures. Still made the move in the end just in time
for our Transit Passenger processing by the US authorities. This meant getting off the ship and joining
the queues for immigration and customs.
We did think we would stay ashore and take the ferry over to Manhattan
but just couldn't quite face the hassle so instead managed to bypass most of
the queues and got back on board the ship.
Really nice couple of hours on board in the sun before the new
passengers started boarding, there only being a few back-to-back sailors this
cruise.
Took it easy this afternoon and evening while all the new
folk crowded out the ship finding their way around, always hectic the first
day, seemed very different with new passengers and a huge number of different
crew.
Enjoyed the sailaway from deck, lovely evening sailing out of
New York with fine views of Manhattan skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty.
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