Cruising out of NOLA

[weezandleah]

I saw a link on here about a year or so ago that detailed the trip down the Mississippi from New Orleans. It was a timeline that described what you could see and when the ship would pass each spot. Anybody know what I'm talking about or have the link?

 

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[lkjcruiser75]

Is this it?

 

 

 

 

Backgournd: I was born and raised in New Orleans, La. and lived the first 30 years of my life there. For the past 15 years, we have taken a family reunion cruise every Thanksgiving and always sail out of New Orleans. I love the city and enjoy being able to point out the hidden secrets and historical landmarks, which most people just pass by as they cruise out of New Orleans. The boat moves fairly quickly and everything here will be seen within the first hour of departure, so pay close attention.

 

I will attempt to create a play by play tour of exactly what you will see as you embark on your journey down the mighty Mississippi, so here goes:

 

The French Quarter:

 

1. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center: This is the massive building you will see where the boat is docked. This is actually the original location of the 1984 Worlds Fair. You can still see the decorative waterfall staircase that was just adjacent to the Space Shuttle display during the Fair. The Convention Center is the 6th largest in the country.

2. Riverwalk: This mall was built for the words fair and has remained a great specialty shop and upper end type of mall. This is also the mall where in 1996 the MV Bright Field ship lost power and rammed into while thousands of tourists where still inside.

3. Harrah’s Casino: It is what it is…

4. Aquarium Of The Americas: Great place to spend a day.

5. Woldenberg Riverfront Park: Great park to see the river and possibly hear some musicians.

6. Jax Brewery: Formerly where Jax Beer was made, now it’s a shopping mall.

7. St. Louis Cathedral: One of the oldest cathedrals in the country, original structure was completed in 1793 on the location where the former Catholic Church was destroyed by the Great New Orleans fire in 1788. A Catholic Church has stood on that ground since 1718. It is still a working Cathedral and therefore receives no historic funding.

8. Jackson Square: Park in front of the Cathedral with large statue of Andrew Jackson on his horse. The statue is significant as it was the first statue of a horse and rider standing on its back legs, very difficult balancing problem.

9. The Moon Walk: This is the small riverfront boardwalk area in front of Jackson Square. You will always here a saxophone going in this area 

10. The French Market: Open air market with shops, flee market and produce stands.

11. The New Orleans Mint: In operation from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909. It is now part of the Louisiana State Museum.

 

Leaving French Quarter to Bywater, Upper and Lower 9th Wards:

 

12. Old docks: Doesn’t seem significant unless you a fan of the group Journey!!! This is the location where they filmed the video for “Separate Ways”.

13. Bywater and Upper 9th ward: The neighborhoods you see in the background.

14. Industrial Canal: man made canal for shipping purposes. This is the canal where one of the major levy breaches took place during Katrina and Rita. You can’t see the location; it’s on the other side of the St. Claude Bridge, which you can see.

15. Lower 9th ward: heavily damaged during Katrina.

16. Holy Cross School for Boys: This is where I went to high school. The school was established in 1849. The original administration building, which is still standing and you should be able to see, was built in 1895. Katrina damaged the campus beyond repair and after over 150 yrs of being on this location, it was moved to a new location on the other side of town.

17. Fats Domino’s house: you can’t see it, but its there.

18. Jackson Barracks: Originally designed by Andrew Jackson and built in 1834-35. It now houses the Louisiana National Guard Headquarters. It also serves as the dividing line between Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes.

 

Entering St. Bernard Parish and Chalmette: This is where Katrina hit the worst, even more so than the lower 9th ward. Abandoned by its country, the first responders here where Canadian Mounties.

 

19. The Le Beau Plantation: It’s about 2 blocks in and hard to see so look real hard. It’s in bad shape and has not been restored, would be beautiful if it were restored.

20. Interview with a Vampier fire: This area is the location where they burned a bunch of old warehouses and whatnot for the movie.

21. Domino sugar: One of the oldest sugar refineries in the country dating back to 1909. It produces 6 million pounds of sugar per day and more than 2 billion pounds per year about 19% of the country’s sugar. Now that’s a lot of sugar!!!!!!

22. Cavaroc House: Located at Domino Sugar, looks like a small plantation but dwarfed by the massive Sugar refinery.

23. St. Bernard Port: It was once talked about to build the cruise terminal at this location.

24. Chalmette Battle Field (Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve): This is where the Battle of New Orleans was fought during the war of 1812 one of the greatest land victories of the war. You should be able to see the “monument”, which looks like a small version of the Washington monument in DC.

25. The Beauregard House: Built on this site in 1832.

26. Chalmette National Cemetery: Veteran cemetery established in 1864.

27. Kaiser Aluminum: This plant pretty much established the town of Chalmette. Its smoke stack has become a local landmark of years past. The plant was the largest Aluminum Smelter in the world until it closed down in 1983.

28. Chalmette Refining LLC: This used to be Mobil which used to be Tennecco etc. It is now a venture of ExxonMobil and the Venezuelan State Oil company. Some of the fuel you and others used to get to N.O. was refined at this very location. If your lucky you may catch them Flaring the Boom. If so you will see a massive fire ball which will light up the entire sky. This is all part of the refining process.

29. Chalmette Ferry Landing: This ferry landing is still used to get residents from one side of the river to the other. To go around is a twenty mile journey, but the time can be the same if you don’t catch the ferry right 

That pretty much sum’s up the first hour or so of your 7-8 hour cruise down the might Mississippi. The rest of the trip is still very interesting, but not too many landmarks. You will pass multiple oil and gas refineries such as BP and Chevron on your way down to the mouth.

 

River Pilot: The very last thing of interest is when you get to the mouth of the river. A pilot boat will meet up with the ship, the ship will slow to a crawl and you can watch as the river pilot (who has been navigating the river) will jump from an open bay door on the ship to a small pilot boat. This will happen late at night usually somewhere between 10-12 depending on departure.

Remember this phrase: “White over Red…Pilot Ahead”. The pilot boat will be a small vessel and at the very top of it, you will see 2 lights, a white light that sits above a red light. This is how you can identify the pilot boat ahead of time.

That’s it, you have officially finished you sailing of the river and are entering the Ocean Blue. Oh, don’t forget to watch for the more then 3000 oil rigs along the continental shelf. Have a great trip.

[rmvst]

I was just getting ready to post the exact same thing. lol

[sailor05]

Here's another. I copied/pasted as someone else did so I don't have the link.

 

 

Before sailaway, the building from where we boarded the ship was built in 2005-2006 and opened in October 2006. It sits on the site of the 1984 World’s fair, and specifically where the Mississippi Aerial River Transit system terminated on the east bank of the Mississippi River. The MART was a ski-lift like passenger system that carried passengers across the river. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississ..._River_Transit

 

Just in front of the ship is the two bridges of the Crescent City Connection. Many people call them the twin bridges, but if you look carefully, they are not twins at all. The first bridge was built from 1954 to 1958 and was called the Greater New Orleans Bridge. It was the second bridge to span the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge, the first being the Huey P. Long bridge. The second bridge, the one closer to the ship was built from 1981 to 1988. The two bridges were called the GNO bridge until they were renamed in 1989. The CCC is the official name, but it is still commonly referred to as the GNO. The trip from the westbank (Algiers, Gretna), to the eastbank(French Quarter, garden district, Metarie, and Kenner) was a toll span of $1.00 charged to each car. The tolls were removed earlier in 2013. The lights on the bridge are decorative. There are 4 strings of 64 lights totaling 256 lights to light the two bridges.

 

As the ship pulls away from the dock, and turns in the river you can get an excellent view of the bridges from the starboard side.

 

Shortly after turning in the river you will see the French Quarter on the port side. The French Quarter is full of history and is the main reason most people come to New Orleans to visit, and many wind up staying. It is bordered on the upriver side by Canal street, the down river side by Esplanade Ave, and by Rampart street on the inland side. There is much to see and do in the French Quarter, and you can get as many answers to the question “what can I do here?” as people you ask.

 

(12 minutes after departure)

Just as we pass Jackson Square we will start to make a corner in the river, that corner is Algiers point (starboard side). It is one of the deepest portions of the river, somewhere around 200 feet deep just off the point. Algiers point is 96.4 miles “AHP” or above head of passes on the Mississippi river. The passes refers to the point in the river just down from Pilottown where the river splits 3 ways.

 

(20 minutes after departure)

Shortly after Algiers Point we will pass two large navy ships that actually belong to the ready reserve fleet of Navy vessels. The ships are kept up and maintained by the Keystone Corporation to be activated with 5 days notice. The ships are named “Cape Kennedy” and “Cape Knox”.

 

The next think you’ll notice is Jackson Barracks. It is the current home of the Louisiana National guard. It is located in the lower 9th ward.

 

The big factory on the port side is the Domino Sugar refinery, the domed structure on the property is one of the largest sugar storage facilities in the world. If you eat anything with sugar in it in or near New Orleans (probably including the ship) it passed through this facility. There is an old plantation that sits on the property too.

 

The next big thing is the monument at the Chalmette national battlefield. The battle was fought after the peace treaty had been signed, but was not ratified by the US congress until after the battle had occurred.

 

After the Battlefield, you will see the city of Chalmette and the Oil Refinery there. This is the first of the refineries you will see, and you will see many many oil support stations along the river and out into the Gulf, where you will see drilling rigs.

 

(1 hour, 28 minutes after departure)

After Chalmette, we will pass the communities of Meraux, Violet, and Poydras, before reaching English Turn.

 

After the point of English Turn, we will pass Belle Chasse on the starboard side, which is home to Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, a Naval Air Station for the U.S. Navy Reserve which was founded in 1941.

 

Between Belle Chasse and Point A La Hache you will see the Harlem Plantation house on the port side. It was built in 1840 and added to the national register of historic places in 1982. This plantation was a Louisiana Creole plantation house, similar to Plantation Laura.

 

(3 hours, 14 minutes after departure)

The next town of any size you will see is Point A La Hache. It is connected to West Point A La Hache by a river ferry operated by the Plaquemines Parish Government, which is the last regularly scheduled crossing of the Mississippi River. It started service in 1933 and its future is questionable. The Woodland Plantation is in West Point A La Hache and is known as the plantation on the bottle of Southern Comfort. It is on the national register of historic places. This area was devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Isaac. Isaac flooded most of West Point A La Hache and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed some fish in waterways up river from here. Point A La Hache’s population in 2010 was 187.

 

Downriver from Point A La Hache is Bohemia, which had a population of about 200 people prior to Hurricane Katrina, but the storm only left about 25 homes inhabitable. The town is only 7 feet above sea level. It also serves as the last town on the road that follows the eastbank of the Mississippi river.

 

The next town is Port Sulphur and was founded in the early 1930s around the Freeport Sulphur company which refined sulphur from nearby mines. In the early 2000’s Freeport sulphur shut down due to low prices on sulphur. The land was sold and what was left of the plant was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The town sits 8 feet above sea level and was under 22 feet of water during the flooding. Most of the single family homes in the town were destroyed, and moved off their foundations by as much as 100 feet. Before Hurricane Katrina the population of the town was 3,115, and in the 2010 census it was down to 1,760.

 

(3 hours, 59 minutes after departure)

We pass the next navigation obstacle, the turn at Port Sulphur.

 

Just after the bend the next town is Empire, which when combined with Venice, a little further downriver, is the third largest seafood port in the United States by weight. Empire was also devastated by the storm and flooding as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill also caused an immediate stop to all seafood landings here, and many did not return for a year or more.

 

Buras-Triumph is an area formed in the 1840’s. It was originally a farming community raising citrus, and a fishing community with oysters being the main product. In the 1930’s oil was discovered in Quarantine Bay east of Buras. This started the oil boom in the region and is now the largest product of this area. Katrina also took her toll here, as this was the part of Louisiana where the eye of the storm made landfall. The storm destroyed the town’s water tower which has been replaced.

 

(4 hours, 50 minutes after departure)

The next major landmark will be Fort Jackson(visible) and Fort St. Phillip(invisible). Fort Jackson is on the starboard side and is a decommissioned masonry fort around 40 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi river. It was constructed between 1822 and 1832 to protect the city of New Orleans and the Mississippi river. It was used as a fort and military training facility until after WWI. It was turned over to Plaqumines Parish in 1962. It was almost put into service during the 1960 as a prison for hippies and desegregation advocates who entered the county, but this never occurred. It was later used as a park and has been closed to the public since Hurricane Isaac last year. It was used as a bird cleaning station in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but this station was moved to Hammond, La later to make it less vulnerable to hurricanes.

Across the river is Fort St. Phillip, which was a masonry fort on the East bank of the Mississippi. It was originally established as San Felipe, during the 1700’s when Spain had control of Louisiana. The fort was used to hold back the British during the war of 1812. It was also a part of the 12 day siege against it and Fort Jackson during the civil war. In the 1930’s it was used as a tanning factory. From 1978 to 1989 it served as the headquarters of the non-sectarian spiritual community Velaashby. The name was formed by combining the surnames of the land owners prior to this community being established. There were as many as 16 members of this community and were known as the Christos family. They resided in three of the two story officer’s quarters and the officer’s club that remained after the refortification during the Spanish-American war of 1898. The fort was badly damaged during Katrina and Rita, and only a few of the masonry structures still exist. It is only reachable via boat or aircraft as it remains flooded much of the year and there are no roads.

 

(5 hours, 19 minutes after departure)

The next town is the last town on the road. Venice Louisiana. It is considered “the end of the road” and it is. Any town after this one is reached by boat or aircraft. Venice is the home base to many seafood and oil operations. It is the last place that a vehicle can reach before goods have to be transferred by boat. The population before Katrina was 460, after Katrina it is 202. It was also greatly impacted by the oil spill.

 

(5 hours, 54 minutes after departure)

Next we will slow down quite a bit as we near Pilottown. At Pilottown there is usually a pilot boat that will catch up to us and meet us to exchange pilots. The pilot who joined us in New Orleans will sign off, and the pilot that will navigate us through southwest pass will get in place. Pilottown was built as a replacement for LaBalize which was south of here. The town is built on piers and raised above ground level, which is prone to flooding. While the town has a zip code, the post office in the town was closed after the postal service could not find a postmaster willing to live in the village. The one room school was closed in the 1970s.

 

(6 hours, 1 minute after departure)

The village is just a few miles upriver from the Head of Passes. This is the point from which all mile markers along the Mississippi river are counting. The passes split 3 ways and are considered the “mouth” of the Mississippi. We will take the western most pass, called Southwest Pass. All large ship traffic takes southwest pass as it is the only one cleared enough for deep draft vessels.

 

As we enter Southwest pass, you can notice that we start seeing more navigational beacons. The safe path is between the red and green lights. They are spaced evenly throughout southwest pass and into the gulf.

 

We will pass a few tank farms and a couple of seaplane bases before entering the gulf.

 

After 7 hours and 16 minutes of travel, we will enter the Gulf of Mexico, on our way to Roatan Honduras, two and a half days later.

 

We will pause shortly after entering the Gulf to disembark our southwest pass pilot, and then the captain will put the pedal to the metal, and we will be making 24 knots by the time you wake up. If you wait just a few more minutes, the ocean waves will rock you to sleep.

Just for reference, if we leave port at 4:30 pm, it will be 11:45 roughly when we get to the gulf of mexico.

[weezandleah]

Here's another. I copied/pasted as someone else did so I don't have the link.

 

 

Before sailaway, the building from where we boarded the ship was built in 2005-2006 and opened in October 2006. It sits on the site of the 1984 World’s fair, and specifically where the Mississippi Aerial River Transit system terminated on the east bank of the Mississippi River. The MART was a ski-lift like passenger system that carried passengers across the river. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississ..._River_Transit

 

Just in front of the ship is the two bridges of the Crescent City Connection. Many people call them the twin bridges, but if you look carefully, they are not twins at all. The first bridge was built from 1954 to 1958 and was called the Greater New Orleans Bridge. It was the second bridge to span the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge, the first being the Huey P. Long bridge. The second bridge, the one closer to the ship was built from 1981 to 1988. The two bridges were called the GNO bridge until they were renamed in 1989. The CCC is the official name, but it is still commonly referred to as the GNO. The trip from the westbank (Algiers, Gretna), to the eastbank(French Quarter, garden district, Metarie, and Kenner) was a toll span of $1.00 charged to each car. The tolls were removed earlier in 2013. The lights on the bridge are decorative. There are 4 strings of 64 lights totaling 256 lights to light the two bridges.

 

As the ship pulls away from the dock, and turns in the river you can get an excellent view of the bridges from the starboard side.

 

Shortly after turning in the river you will see the French Quarter on the port side. The French Quarter is full of history and is the main reason most people come to New Orleans to visit, and many wind up staying. It is bordered on the upriver side by Canal street, the down river side by Esplanade Ave, and by Rampart street on the inland side. There is much to see and do in the French Quarter, and you can get as many answers to the question “what can I do here?” as people you ask.

 

(12 minutes after departure)

Just as we pass Jackson Square we will start to make a corner in the river, that corner is Algiers point (starboard side). It is one of the deepest portions of the river, somewhere around 200 feet deep just off the point. Algiers point is 96.4 miles “AHP” or above head of passes on the Mississippi river. The passes refers to the point in the river just down from Pilottown where the river splits 3 ways.

 

(20 minutes after departure)

Shortly after Algiers Point we will pass two large navy ships that actually belong to the ready reserve fleet of Navy vessels. The ships are kept up and maintained by the Keystone Corporation to be activated with 5 days notice. The ships are named “Cape Kennedy” and “Cape Knox”.

 

The next think you’ll notice is Jackson Barracks. It is the current home of the Louisiana National guard. It is located in the lower 9th ward.

 

The big factory on the port side is the Domino Sugar refinery, the domed structure on the property is one of the largest sugar storage facilities in the world. If you eat anything with sugar in it in or near New Orleans (probably including the ship) it passed through this facility. There is an old plantation that sits on the property too.

 

The next big thing is the monument at the Chalmette national battlefield. The battle was fought after the peace treaty had been signed, but was not ratified by the US congress until after the battle had occurred.

 

After the Battlefield, you will see the city of Chalmette and the Oil Refinery there. This is the first of the refineries you will see, and you will see many many oil support stations along the river and out into the Gulf, where you will see drilling rigs.

 

(1 hour, 28 minutes after departure)

After Chalmette, we will pass the communities of Meraux, Violet, and Poydras, before reaching English Turn.

 

After the point of English Turn, we will pass Belle Chasse on the starboard side, which is home to Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, a Naval Air Station for the U.S. Navy Reserve which was founded in 1941.

 

Between Belle Chasse and Point A La Hache you will see the Harlem Plantation house on the port side. It was built in 1840 and added to the national register of historic places in 1982. This plantation was a Louisiana Creole plantation house, similar to Plantation Laura.

 

(3 hours, 14 minutes after departure)

The next town of any size you will see is Point A La Hache. It is connected to West Point A La Hache by a river ferry operated by the Plaquemines Parish Government, which is the last regularly scheduled crossing of the Mississippi River. It started service in 1933 and its future is questionable. The Woodland Plantation is in West Point A La Hache and is known as the plantation on the bottle of Southern Comfort. It is on the national register of historic places. This area was devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Isaac. Isaac flooded most of West Point A La Hache and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed some fish in waterways up river from here. Point A La Hache’s population in 2010 was 187.

 

Downriver from Point A La Hache is Bohemia, which had a population of about 200 people prior to Hurricane Katrina, but the storm only left about 25 homes inhabitable. The town is only 7 feet above sea level. It also serves as the last town on the road that follows the eastbank of the Mississippi river.

 

The next town is Port Sulphur and was founded in the early 1930s around the Freeport Sulphur company which refined sulphur from nearby mines. In the early 2000’s Freeport sulphur shut down due to low prices on sulphur. The land was sold and what was left of the plant was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The town sits 8 feet above sea level and was under 22 feet of water during the flooding. Most of the single family homes in the town were destroyed, and moved off their foundations by as much as 100 feet. Before Hurricane Katrina the population of the town was 3,115, and in the 2010 census it was down to 1,760.

 

(3 hours, 59 minutes after departure)

We pass the next navigation obstacle, the turn at Port Sulphur.

 

Just after the bend the next town is Empire, which when combined with Venice, a little further downriver, is the third largest seafood port in the United States by weight. Empire was also devastated by the storm and flooding as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill also caused an immediate stop to all seafood landings here, and many did not return for a year or more.

 

Buras-Triumph is an area formed in the 1840’s. It was originally a farming community raising citrus, and a fishing community with oysters being the main product. In the 1930’s oil was discovered in Quarantine Bay east of Buras. This started the oil boom in the region and is now the largest product of this area. Katrina also took her toll here, as this was the part of Louisiana where the eye of the storm made landfall. The storm destroyed the town’s water tower which has been replaced.

 

(4 hours, 50 minutes after departure)

The next major landmark will be Fort Jackson(visible) and Fort St. Phillip(invisible). Fort Jackson is on the starboard side and is a decommissioned masonry fort around 40 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi river. It was constructed between 1822 and 1832 to protect the city of New Orleans and the Mississippi river. It was used as a fort and military training facility until after WWI. It was turned over to Plaqumines Parish in 1962. It was almost put into service during the 1960 as a prison for hippies and desegregation advocates who entered the county, but this never occurred. It was later used as a park and has been closed to the public since Hurricane Isaac last year. It was used as a bird cleaning station in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but this station was moved to Hammond, La later to make it less vulnerable to hurricanes.

Across the river is Fort St. Phillip, which was a masonry fort on the East bank of the Mississippi. It was originally established as San Felipe, during the 1700’s when Spain had control of Louisiana. The fort was used to hold back the British during the war of 1812. It was also a part of the 12 day siege against it and Fort Jackson during the civil war. In the 1930’s it was used as a tanning factory. From 1978 to 1989 it served as the headquarters of the non-sectarian spiritual community Velaashby. The name was formed by combining the surnames of the land owners prior to this community being established. There were as many as 16 members of this community and were known as the Christos family. They resided in three of the two story officer’s quarters and the officer’s club that remained after the refortification during the Spanish-American war of 1898. The fort was badly damaged during Katrina and Rita, and only a few of the masonry structures still exist. It is only reachable via boat or aircraft as it remains flooded much of the year and there are no roads.

 

(5 hours, 19 minutes after departure)

The next town is the last town on the road. Venice Louisiana. It is considered “the end of the road” and it is. Any town after this one is reached by boat or aircraft. Venice is the home base to many seafood and oil operations. It is the last place that a vehicle can reach before goods have to be transferred by boat. The population before Katrina was 460, after Katrina it is 202. It was also greatly impacted by the oil spill.

 

(5 hours, 54 minutes after departure)

Next we will slow down quite a bit as we near Pilottown. At Pilottown there is usually a pilot boat that will catch up to us and meet us to exchange pilots. The pilot who joined us in New Orleans will sign off, and the pilot that will navigate us through southwest pass will get in place. Pilottown was built as a replacement for LaBalize which was south of here. The town is built on piers and raised above ground level, which is prone to flooding. While the town has a zip code, the post office in the town was closed after the postal service could not find a postmaster willing to live in the village. The one room school was closed in the 1970s.

 

(6 hours, 1 minute after departure)

The village is just a few miles upriver from the Head of Passes. This is the point from which all mile markers along the Mississippi river are counting. The passes split 3 ways and are considered the “mouth” of the Mississippi. We will take the western most pass, called Southwest Pass. All large ship traffic takes southwest pass as it is the only one cleared enough for deep draft vessels.

 

As we enter Southwest pass, you can notice that we start seeing more navigational beacons. The safe path is between the red and green lights. They are spaced evenly throughout southwest pass and into the gulf.

 

We will pass a few tank farms and a couple of seaplane bases before entering the gulf.

 

After 7 hours and 16 minutes of travel, we will enter the Gulf of Mexico, on our way to Roatan Honduras, two and a half days later.

 

We will pause shortly after entering the Gulf to disembark our southwest pass pilot, and then the captain will put the pedal to the metal, and we will be making 24 knots by the time you wake up. If you wait just a few more minutes, the ocean waves will rock you to sleep.

Just for reference, if we leave port at 4:30 pm, it will be 11:45 roughly when we get to the gulf of mexico.

Yes! That's it! Thank all of you very much.

 

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[1sttimer8577]

I'm on the same cruise as you rmvst.

[1sttimer8577]

I was just getting ready to post the exact same thing. lol

I'm booked on the dream also on that date.

[cjalphonso]

I wrote the first one, glad it is still be of some use :)

[NWACruiser]

I archived a copy of the posting to use every time I cruise from New Orleans.