Bahamas prohibits docking at private island

[tkwbear]

8 hours ago, mscdivina2016 said:

Weather.

I don't believe it. Too many doors on the island housing had quarantine labels on them.

Weather looks great now but we will never really know.

Did you at least get the light show on OC?

[mscdivina2016]

1 hour ago, tkwbear said:

Did you at least get the light show on OC?

Twice

630 and 900 as we were leaving

[dexddd]

22 hours ago, mscdivina2016 said:

Weather.

I don't believe it. Too many doors on the island housing had quarantine labels on them.

Weather looks great now but we will never really know.

When we were there in September, we never saw any quarantine labels but were told the building closest to road on way to OH was were the quarantined new staff when they got on the island.

Edited January 12, 2022 by dexddd

[dexddd]

13 hours ago, tkwbear said:

Did you at least get the light show on OC?

The light show is now like five minutes.

[dexddd]

23 hours ago, Morgsmom said:

Was there a reason given for not having the 2nd day at OC? 😞

When we went late September on Mera, we were supposed to be there overnight but as we exited ship, sign said to be back by a time that night like 9.

 

Asked a few staff and none even knew we were not staying.  We did have a shuffle in ports and did do a second stop at OC.

[Motegi]

When we were there in late November on Divina we stayed at Ocean Cay overnight as scheduled.

 

Will be on Mera next week and scheduled for overnight.  We'll see how it goes!
 

P.S. Maybe Mera's Captain is less comfortable departing OceanCay in the wind?

Edited January 12, 2022 by Motegi

[FrostyJoe]

18 minutes ago, Motegi said:

When we were there in late November on Divina we stayed at Ocean Cay overnight as scheduled.

 

Will be on Mera next week and scheduled for overnight.  We'll see how it goes!
 

P.S. Maybe Mera's Captain is less comfortable departing OceanCay in the wind?

Could very possibly be….mera is a bigger/taller ship…

[FrostyJoe]

1 hour ago, Motegi said:

When we were there in late November on Divina we stayed at Ocean Cay overnight as scheduled.

 

Will be on Mera next week and scheduled for overnight.  We'll see how it goes!
 

P.S. Maybe Mera's Captain is less comfortable departing OceanCay in the wind?

Motegi....I think you and I have to expect the miss OC next week but hope for the best.  Wind forecast is 12-18 mph next week.  Unsure what the max limit is for wind is for OC docking.

 

I guess I'll expect to collect $250 from my insurance carrier if we miss it - I was surprised to see they had an option to buy protection for "inconveniences" like missing ports or getting rained on....  I hope we make it to OC....

[mscdivina2016]

21 minutes ago, FrostyJoe said:

Motegi....I think you and I have to expect the miss OC next week but hope for the best.  Wind forecast is 12-18 mph next week.  Unsure what the max limit is for wind is for OC docking.

 

There's more to it that just the speed.

The direction!

They have to sail into a skinny channel all the way to the dock.

Do a 180° tight turn then come into the dock sideways.

They have a tug standing by.

[FrostyJoe]

29 minutes ago, mscdivina2016 said:

There's more to it that just the speed.

The direction!

They have to sail into a skinny channel all the way to the dock.

Do a 180° tight turn then come into the dock sideways.

They have a tug standing by.

So true!!  If the wind is strong, I hope it's exactly aligned with the dredged channel so no X-wind 🙂