Bahamas

Sad to leave home and join the vessel just when summer is around the corner but..anyway..went down to "summery" Bahamas as well and "got to make some bread.." 

Off course not "easy peacy" travel. Plane change in Toronto became an almost American deal. 2,5 hours in customs and immigration, so for sure I missed that flight. Spent the afternoon awaiting new tickets and trying to find a decent Hotel room(which I finally did, knackered).
"Alt Hotel" next to the airport, modern and fresh..

I must be "jinxed". 3 last times I have been travelling to join my vessel, I have been delayed and have had to stay in Hotel somewhere around the world awaiting new travel arrangements.

I joined just when the vessel was about to get out from the dry dock, after a decent "face lift".
Spent a couple of days in and out of dry dock dock, equipment berth, and then doing sea trials..making sure that all systems are "go". After that we left and set out for new adventures. A few "snippets" of the views I encountered.

 In for landing Freeport

 Hugin on the blocks

 My Hotel balcony

 My reliever sign off from dry dock..

 Sea Trials and FRC, "shuttle" "techs" in and out of port

 Sun rise Northern Beach equipment berth

 Electricians pulling cables..

 OOW Voyage planning

 Frantic

 Ch.Off looking lonely...

 Nice water, feel like going for a swim

 A few hundred mattresses being recycled

 "Propp stack"

 Safety Officer doing a safety induction for newly arrived joining crew.

 Ch.Elec and Elec struggling with the window wiper

Surroundings.. 

Recycling, Sun chairs



Recycling Mattresses



ROV doing an "Abbey Road", Is that a "pressure chamber"?



 

Msm have a "quick peak"on the coffee break

Ch.Engineer in his Office



 

Ch.Electrician final pray before "switch on" the power.

 

Carnival installing cabins on top of the bridge.



 

Newly purchased battery handling device for the Observers on Node deck.

 

Sun is setting

 

More mattresses for recycling

 

Batteries loaded, now landing shipments

 

Workers fishing on their lunch break, "birdies" looking for "nam nam"

 

Shifted to bunker berth, closer to the cruise terminal


 

 

 

Facilities for arriving/departing cruise passengers.

 

Senor Frog's

 

View from our bunker berth. Towards dry dock..

..towards the sea.

 

Pilot boarding the vessel next to us on their departure.

 

More views.

 

Arriving ships, container top and cruise below...

 

"Tender boat" bringing joining ships crew out to their vessel. Crew change. 

 

Swinging around in the morning light...

 

Next cruise ship waiting in line...after her arrival, we are clear to depart...

 Rig Lizard doing an "Obi-Wan Kenobi" "clear for departure...