As usual I sleep like a rock. I will admit to 9 hours, but it may have been longer. Corn flakes and a glass of juice for breakfast. Exactly what I have most days,
We are secure at the dock and cleared by local authorities by 8:30. We elect to head to town early to avoid the worst of the heat. We are moored at the new pier built especially for the mega cruise ships. I would say we are the only ship here, but I need to be more precise. We are the only cruise ship tied up at the cruise terminal. There is an empty oil tanker tied up at the other cruise ship terminal. Something I have never seen before.
As we are walking towards town the oil tanker leaves and heads to sea. I haven't the slighest guess as to why she was tied up where she was. Maybe to transfer some crew members? Or someone taking a freighter cruise?
I really can't drink early in the morning so I forgo my usual watering hole and instead settle for a few pictures and then we head back to the ship. It is warm and humid, but not as hot as predicted. Probably being on the coast so close to the water helped keep the temperatures down.
After a quick shower, we are able to make reservations on the North Star, free while in port, and take some aerial pictures of Curacao. Pictures are being posted on my facebook page "Steve Raiford" at the request of my children.
The coastal kitchen is getting busier each evening. I learn this is the usual pattern. Few reservations early in the cruise, getting busier as the cruise progresses.
All aboard isn't until 7:30 this evening, so there is no show in the theater tonight, but plenty of music in various venues. Boleros usually has good music. The accustics are so poor in the music hall that none of the groups sound very good.
Our next port is Aruba, about 70 miles away.
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