GUEST COLLECTION - Explorer of the Seas cruise 26 Sep 09

19th October 2009

This is a new departure for this site as it is the very first Guest Collection I have put on here. My good friend from the USA, Gail Bean, recently did a cruise to Bermuda on board Royal Caribbean’s, Explorer of the Seas. Gail is now thoroughly hooked on ship photography so, to give her a bit of encouragement, and to ensure that she is totally ensnared in the hobby, I have published a selection of her photographs on my site. The cruise was from the Cape Liberty Cruise Port, near Bayonne in New Jersey direct to Bermuda where there was an overnight stop, followed by a return to passage to Cape Liberty. The Cape Liberty Cruise Port is a relatively new terminal, operational since 2004. It is located near Bayonne on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson just downstream from Liberty Island and built on the site of the former Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne (MOTBY), a US military base that was operational from 1942 until 1990. The opening of the terminal was significant in that it marked the return of large passenger ships to the Jersey Shore after a lengthy absence since Hamburg-America Lines left their Hoboken terminal several decades ago.

Rosemary McAllister	New York	New York	Captain D
Miss Gill	Miss Gill	Aegean Sea	Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea and bunkering barge	Thames River	John F Kennedy	US Coast Guard Utility Boat 41482