Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Maneuvering into place on Aruba

Aruba has a very narrow and quite shallow entrance to its port. There is a shallow reef just offshore and the ship must maneuver around this when docking. Still, Aruba is a major commercial port for the southern Caribbean area, a connection between South America and the rest of the Caribbean and North America, and it's not unusual to see the loading and unloading of freight while cruise ships are in port.

The ship really churns up the sea bottom on its entrance into port.