A last shot of us sheltering from the rain before boarding the bus to Puerto Limon to catch the boat home, it absolutely pee'd it down on the last day, which didn't matter much as we were having a surf lesson.
Last bus journey!
The hotel in Limon had legendary customer service, the lady behind the reception was on the phone when we arrived, then put the phone down and started writing for a good five minutes without registering our arrival.
After several complicated phone calls to the port agent to arrange meeting up with him and getting on the ship the next day it turned out he was actually in an office just a few metres away round the corner from our hotel.
Our first glimpse of the ship HS Schubert. After an incredibly half hearted lugguage check, we were on board in the Port of Moin and ready to go - however the boat was not! We had to get on in the morning but were not scheduled to leave until late that night.
Goodbye Costa Rica
Hello HS Schubert
Our room on board
We had our own sitting room too
This is what an unloaded containership looks like
Watching the loading in Moin was nearly unbearable in terms of tension, many guys were on deck pulling and pushing the containers often having to deck as they swayed unpredicatbly at the last minute.
That is Tortugero national park off by the horizon
A nice selection of flags - Ralph's extensive computer football experience meant he was good at naming the countries (form the team selection screen on the game)
In the middle of the night something woke us up, I looked out to see we were cruising out at sea, brilliant, we'd finished loading up and we're off! This was good news. I woke up thinking how smooth the journey was, no problems sleeping, no seasickness. Strangely calm in fact, which we found out looking out of the window in the morning was due to our being anchored only a couple hundred metres off the Costa Rican coast!
Apparently during the night the ship had broken free of the dock, the frayed ropes were lying all over the deck when we looked out from the bridge in the morning. There was a big swell and the Port of Moin is completely unprotected so having snapped almost all of our ropes we set off unloaded to anchor with all the other ships just off shore - the crew had had a terrible stressful night while we slept soundly.
The snapped ropes
All at sea
After three days at sea we finally arrive ....... back in Costa Rica!
Banana boat.
Approaching Kingston Jamaica
Port of Kingston
Ralph's attempt at being arty
We were curious to see our new passenger (Melanie) arriving so watched from the bridge.
hanging out on the aft
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