Bill's Panama Trip - April 2009

[Bill Chroust]

I have posted some photos from our Trip to Panama in April.

http://picasaweb.google.com/wjc.sir74/PanamaCruise02?authkey=Gv1sRgCL2_usLxie7soQE

We departed from Fort Lauderdale on April 8 on Holland America Cruises
on the Zammerbahn ship. Then we visited a small island called Cay
that is leased by Holland America, then to Caracao, then to Aruba. I
wasn't very impressed with Aruba it wasn't clean and there were too
many hotels. It had some nice blue beaches, but that's about it. We
took an excursion to a sunken ship, which was a German WWII ship that
they'd scuttled.

From Aruba we went to the Panama Canal. The boat turns around halfway
through after the first locks at Groton Lake. Then after a brief stop
we went to Cristobal, which is part of Panama.

The food was great on the ship. The folded the bath towels every day
in the shape of some sea animals, so Judy took pictures of those.
After that we had to stop at the Cayman islands to let some sick guy
off. We passed Cuba on the way home.

Bill

[star treck]

Here was the itinerary:

Wed 08 APR: Sail from Ft. Lauderdale Florida
Thur 09 APR: Half Moon Cay, Bahamas
Fri 10 APR: Sea Day
Sat 11 APR Orjanestad, Aruba
Sun 12 APR Willemstad, Curacao
Mon 13 APR: Sea Day
Tue 14 APR: Enger Panama Canal, Cristobal
Wed 15 APR: Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
Thu 16 APR: Sea Day
Fri 17 APR: Sea Day
Sat 18 APR: Debark ship, Ft. Lauderdale

The ship's name was "ms Zuiderdam" Captain Werner Timmers.