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| Boobies floating on the updrafts of the ship and keeping a sharp eye open for flying fish. The fish fly away from the bow wave of the ship, and the boobies dive bomb right after them for a fresh meal at sea. |
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| Hovering above the bow wave, a Boobie makes eye contact with people on the walk around deck |
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| Last port, and ship's crew take the opportunity to clean, oil, polish and paint one of the tenders |
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| Present day tenders are a little more comfortable than these old ones... |
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| From Fort Lauderdale through the Panama Canal (bottom right) and up the Central American Coast towards Baja California and San Diego |
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| Honoring 'Ancient Mariners', meaning all guests who have travelled a certain number of days on Holland America Ships. Here, with the Captain and the Hotel Manager, is The Queen of them all: Dolly, who has lived and enjoyed more than 6000 (six thousand) days aboard various Holland America ships. She owns the ships - she says. Dolly is 'way up there' in age, but a lively as can be. Here she is wearing a custom made arm sling with Holland America logo and her name 'Dolly' embroidered on it; apparently she fell somewhere and broke her arm. It does not hold her back. She walks off a ship's dock in Mumbai, for instance, and the local traffic policemen greet her by name. |
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| Getting up there....off Eugene, Oregon, on the way to Juan de Fuca Strait |
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| The sad moment - Good Bye to the Crew, who line up on stage with some of their 'work' symbols. Here the cabin stewards with some of their towel animals. Others wave brooms, champagne bottles, cleaning buckets, kitchen utensils, laundry baskets, dinner chimes....whatever. When they break out singing Love in any language, Straight from the heart the whole audience breaks out the Kleenexes. |
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| Cool Pacific North West - the back pool is deserted. |
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| Cloud layers and snow capped mountains - the Olympic range in Washington, along the Juan de Fuca Strait |
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| Welcome to Canada - the Victoria pilot boat arrives alongside MS Amsterdam |
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| Around Ogden Point in Victoria - and home... |
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| Marker Buoys lined up ashore at Victoria's Coast Guard building. |
