Bayport terminal
Once tied up to the pier the sun came up
Lighting up the container port
A fuel barge pulls alongside to fill the diesel tanks to run the generators which propel the ship and power all the rooms and equipment on board.
Princess buses wait in the parking lot to take passengers to the airports
Passengers who drove to the pier will collect their cars from the parking lot
Trucks will unload for the next 8 hours
We are never in a hurry to leave a cruise ship. We don't have a flight to catch as we always stay a day after the ship docks. In this instance it would be our first stay in Downtown Houston as we had tickets for an opera performance there, later that evening.
I usually kill time, after our last breakfast, taking photos of things I had forgot to shoot earlier in the week. (These ships over 100,000 tonnes are so big that you probably won't see or experience all it has to offer within a one week stay).
Here's the Internet Cafe and the Library...
Tankships take to the sea to spread the wealth to other U.S. ports
When we get off the ship as late as we do, there are no crowds and so it's easy to get a taxi to our next stop-Hertz car rental, to begin our brief stay in Houston. As I've covered Houston in a recent blog I'll end this one here.
Our friends Cindy, Alice and Daniel were already at the airport. They enjoyed their first cruise so much they joined us again on the Ruby Princess in January 2015- no doubt the subject of a future blog.
Right now I am thinking of some of our trips to the great (sunny) western US states and am thinking of three cities to choose from. Places we have loved...
Las Vegas
Sedona
Santa Fe
I don't know which one yet- if you have a preference use the comments button and let me know!
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