Adventure of the Seas

Sanji

2014-11-01 23:19:02

When I'm going to be in Malaga, I look at the timetable/dates for the cruise ships docking and I head down to the Puerto to have a look.
Then when I get back to my hotel, I have a look on my tablet where the ship is heading - Don't ask me why I do this, because I've never been on a cruise and it's just some useless information that I like to know.

After staying for many years in La Carihuela, if I see them sail across the bay as they come out of Malaga Puerto, usually they are heading down to/around Gibraltar and up to Lisbon.

Anyhow, I had a British Gas engineer doing my annual service the other day, and he'd just had another cruise on the Adventure - and I was telling him that I saw the ship in Malaga in September - so, he said, that I won't be seeing it in Malaga again, because it is being deployed to the Caribbean.

Apparently (according to him and his experience of this ship) - most of the activities are not undercover and the weather in the Med really doesn't suit this ship, apart from maybe July and August, so now it's going to do the Southern Caribbean cruises.
Anyhow, after he'd finished putting my back boiler back together and he'd left, I had a look - and sure enough he was correct.

http://www.planetcruise.co.uk/adventure-of-the-seas-cruises.

Here's a couple of photos that I took, I didn't have my camera or tablet that day, just a smart phone in my pocket that I use for taking photos - they wouldn't win any photo competitions, but it's good enough for me..

Sanji x

Glynis HT Admin

2014-11-02 08:49:41

Re: Adventure of the Seas

I know what you mean Sanji. Whenever a plane passes overhead I always wonder where they are going.

As we are on the flight path for Durham Tees Valley airport you can see the Airlines name as they come in to land/ take off & I'm often tempted to go and look & find out their destination or where they've been.

Nothing wrong with the photos, they're very clear :tup

SMa

2014-11-02 10:15:11

Re: Adventure of the Seas

You don't have to explain yourself to me, Sanji! I grew up in Liverpool at the tail end of the transatlantic liner era and whilst most of the Cunard fleet serving the New York route was by then operating out of Southampton, they were still operating sailings to Canada and the Canadian Pacific line 'Empress' ships were still very active. As were the 'Reina' ships of the Pacific Steam Navigation line on the Sout American routes. The local paper still had a shipping news section which listed the comings and goings of the liners and I was fascinated by it. A simple crossing of the river in the ferry would drive my parents to distraction because I wanted to always know where these big liners we could see from it had come from and where going. There answer was always the same 'Ask your Uncle Reg when we get home' because he worked on the docks and followed the comings and goings of all of them and the shipping news was the part of the paper he turned to first.

I always said that once I retired that I would visit visit the Caribbean travelling on a Fyffes banana boat but Elder and Fyffes ships no longer run but it looks as if I could still travel by freighter to Guadeloupe amd Martinque with a French line! Looks as if I might be even be able to take the cats!

http://cargoshipvoyages.com/VoyageDetails/?SCID=46&VID=89&SGID=120

SM

Sanji

2014-11-02 21:49:11

Re: Adventure of the Seas

Glynis HT Admin wrote:
Nothing wrong with the photos, they're very clear :tup

Hi Glynis - They're clear, but they become 'grainy' with the zoom on a phone and you lose definition, such as being able to read the name of the ship without a 'proper' camera.
When my youngest lived in Australia, I use to stop up into the early hours tracking the plane back to OZ , and when they'd flown passed Kazakhstan, I went to bed - and then the first thing in the morning, I'd be checking if the plane had landed in Hong Kong, and then I'd track the second leg of the journey to Sydney. Same when he was flying into the UK.

I don't know why I did it, because there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. It must be the 'mothering worrying syndrome'........The next day I was half dead from lack of sleep and he probably slept most of the way. :roll:

I don't do it now, I look to see if the plane has departed and then I depart to bed.! :wink:

Sanji x

cyprus100

2014-11-06 18:10:40

Re: Adventure of the Seas

I'm a bit of a geek too when it comes to these things....

I have an email sent to me every day of ships I'm tracking through Fleetmon website. Certain ones I like to keep an eye on as I want to know when they will arrive in Limassol port in the hope I can get a good photo of them. Sadly, Limassol port is not at all photographer friendly and we don't always fare very well.

I've been trying to catch the MSC Lirica passenger ship for some time and finally caught up and got a full view photo of her which meant I could share it on the shipping site. (You have to show the ship full length in the water but if they're moored at Limassol, you can't see the water as they're always pulled up against the concrete sidings).

Did I say, I caught up with the MSC Lirica in Malta though - not Limassol.....

Here's the photo which was accepted by Fleetmon.com shipping site:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2948/15328727358_fbc47a1b6b_z.jpg

Also popular on my "geek" list are:
Recent earthquakes near me: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/near_you.php
Realtime lightning strikes: http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en
Cyprus storms live: http://www.cyprus-storms.net

And if you're into checking what's above you in the sky and have a smart phone - you can get an App which if you point it at an overhead plane, it will give you exactly all that info you so desire!

Glynis HT Admin

2014-11-07 14:49:42

Re: Adventure of the Seas

And if you're into checking what's above you in the sky and have a smart phone - you can get an App which if you point it at an overhead plane, it will give you exactly all that info

Thanks for that Cyprus :tup