Boats of Antigua.
The villa we stayed in has a spectacular view of the area leading to St. Johns harbor. Every ship that wants to do business in the main city of Antigua passes before us. I noticed a boat that I thought might be a research vessel, spied upon it with binoculars, and found its name. Since I had a computer nearby, I googled the name, made a great discovery, and found myself with a new temporary hobby.
The ship is the Royal Research Ship James Cook. I have no idea why it was in Antigua, but the previous month it was dis covering the deepest ocean vents known to science. That was enough to get me to run for the binoculars every time I saw a boat for the rest of the week. Nothing else was quite that interesting, but some stuff was cool.
Lots of these moving from port to port, bringing all the goods that can't be produced on the island: everything but goat meat and rum, basically. This is the Tropic Sun, operated by the Tropical Shipping Company.
The bread and butter of the island is the regular appearance of huge cruise ships. This one, the Caribbean princess has a capacity of over 3000 passengers, who may disembark from the ship to take day trips on the island, visit the casino and restaurants, and buy gifts and souvenirs.
The Black Swan hosts pirate-themed day excursions on the island, often in Deep Bay, which is directly below the villa where we were.
Here is a small craft named Ocean Lady leaving Deep Bay. A private yacht with no presence on the internet that I could detect.
Two more big cruise ships:
Serenade of the seas.
Seven Seas Voyager. You can see a small craft ahead of it, possibly the harbor master leading it into port.
A smaller cruise ship, the Hanseatic, has a hull reinforced against ice, for Arctic and Antarctic journeys.
This container ship, from the Portuguese islands of Madeira, has the unlikely name Neutor.
And the whole time we were there, the Logos Hope was docked in the harbor. It's owned by a Christian Evangelical NGO, providing some kinds of services to local children. We were under the impression that it was like a floating library.
At the end of the week we saw many students boarding Logos Hope.
The ship is the Royal Research Ship James Cook. I have no idea why it was in Antigua, but the previous month it was dis covering the deepest ocean vents known to science. That was enough to get me to run for the binoculars every time I saw a boat for the rest of the week. Nothing else was quite that interesting, but some stuff was cool.
Lots of these moving from port to port, bringing all the goods that can't be produced on the island: everything but goat meat and rum, basically. This is the Tropic Sun, operated by the Tropical Shipping Company.
The bread and butter of the island is the regular appearance of huge cruise ships. This one, the Caribbean princess has a capacity of over 3000 passengers, who may disembark from the ship to take day trips on the island, visit the casino and restaurants, and buy gifts and souvenirs.
The Black Swan hosts pirate-themed day excursions on the island, often in Deep Bay, which is directly below the villa where we were.
Here is a small craft named Ocean Lady leaving Deep Bay. A private yacht with no presence on the internet that I could detect.
Two more big cruise ships:
Serenade of the seas.
Seven Seas Voyager. You can see a small craft ahead of it, possibly the harbor master leading it into port.
A smaller cruise ship, the Hanseatic, has a hull reinforced against ice, for Arctic and Antarctic journeys.
This container ship, from the Portuguese islands of Madeira, has the unlikely name Neutor.
And the whole time we were there, the Logos Hope was docked in the harbor. It's owned by a Christian Evangelical NGO, providing some kinds of services to local children. We were under the impression that it was like a floating library.
At the end of the week we saw many students boarding Logos Hope.