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All Things Considered => General Discussion--Non food Related => Topic started by: Bentley on February 19, 2025, 04:21:08 PM

Title: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bentley on February 19, 2025, 04:21:08 PM
Wont be much posting for next 10 days, In Aruba, heading to Panama Canal. Just wanted you all to know why we are not posting!


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Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: hughver on February 19, 2025, 04:52:17 PM
Been there, done that. Best part was lock passage and Porto Rico side trips, which included zip line and river rafting.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: BigDave83 on February 19, 2025, 06:20:28 PM
Looks like a fun trip. Especially with a fishing rod.

Does that cruise have the shot gun shooting off the top deck? I think that would be fun.

Can't wait to see the zip lining and river rafting videos.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: urnmor on February 19, 2025, 09:07:33 PM
Enjoy the cruise
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Post by: yorkdude on February 20, 2025, 03:23:16 AM
Stay safe and have a great time.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bentley on March 01, 2025, 08:50:35 PM
This was in Cartagena, Columbia, I think some would have found this view from Kristin's balcony quite ugly. I was fascinated watching them load this massive LNG container ship, and then the small one next to us!

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Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bentley on March 01, 2025, 09:08:54 PM
More interesting to me then most of the ports, a tour of the 5th floor Galley.  Unfortunately way to short & unguided tour.  I could have spent hours in there.  As a former dish washer 47 years ago, I was fascinated by the length of theirs!  Only for dinnerware/crockery, the glasses & flatware were done in the more traditional (and what I used) raise the lid type washer!  I would have loved to see this working!  The cold prep area.  The finishing line (with photos of what the finished plate should look like) and a few other areas I am really not sure what they are.  There are 3 galleys like this on the ship!

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Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bentley on March 01, 2025, 09:12:14 PM
400 lbs. of ice an hour.

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Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Brushpopper on March 02, 2025, 10:02:32 AM
I find stuff like that fascinating.  My dad served on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during WWII and we have the U.S.S. Lexington in Corpus Christi as a museum.  I made the mistake of trying to tour it with the family.  I could have spent days there looking at it but the family wasn't interested much so we didn't stay long.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 02, 2025, 11:04:42 AM
I find stuff like that fascinating.  My dad served on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during WWII and we have the U.S.S. Lexington in Corpus Christi as a museum.  I made the mistake of trying to tour it with the family.  I could have spent days there looking at it but the family wasn't interested much so we didn't stay long.

That's why I like traveling by myself.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 02, 2025, 11:06:11 AM
This may seem like a dumb question.

Where do they get the water to make the ice?  Is there something on the ship that takes in the ocean water and removes the salt?

Also, does the ship have its own waste water treatment plant?

You have peaked my curiousity.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Brushpopper on March 02, 2025, 12:23:59 PM
This may seem like a dumb question.

Where do they get the water to make the ice?  Is there something on the ship that takes in the ocean water and removes the salt?

Also, does the ship have its own waste water treatment plant?

You have peaked my curiousity.

They have a desalination system and I seem to remember that the waste water is processed somehow to where it is clean.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bentley on March 02, 2025, 06:43:31 PM
Internet has been off since 8:00 a.m. I hate working with phones in the internet I'll try and answer a little later or tomorrow whenever we get internet
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: jdmessner on March 02, 2025, 06:53:26 PM
What a great trip! I look forward to hearing more when you get reconnected in cyber space.
Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bentley on March 03, 2025, 01:59:26 PM
This is a little old but applied to the ship we were on I believe!

Princess Cruises Brings Sustainable Technology to Sea (https://www.portseattle.org/blog/princess-cruises-brings-sustainable-technology-sea#:~:text=Drinking%20water&text=Princess%20bunkers%20water%20from%20ports,and%20out%20of%20U.S.%20ports.)

Where do they get the water to make the ice?  Is there something on the ship that takes in the ocean water and removes the salt?

Also, does the ship have its own waste water treatment plant?

Title: Re: Heading to Canal!
Post by: Bar-B-Lew on March 03, 2025, 06:52:55 PM
Thanks for sharing.