Manaus, Brazil

Interesting morning… we were approaching Manaus when we woke up about 7 this morning and we could see Royal Princess just ahead of us. I was looking forward to seeing her here (we did our World Cruise on her last year) before she is moved from Princess to P & O cruise line.

We neared the port and then both ships just sort of sat there. Soon the Captain came over the speakers and announced that there was some sort of a port dispute that included the Harbor Master, the Navy, Government officials and who knows who else and we would not be able to dock for a while. Every half hour he updated us with the announcement that there was no news yet. Finally about 12:30 Royal Princess was allowed to dock and we were told to anchor and use tenders. Although not a perfect solution it did allow those with excursions to go as they had all been rescheduled.

Jim and I were planning to go to the zoo today and not much else as we have a jungle river excursion here tomorrow morning. We decided to wait until later in the day when we were supposed to be able to dock, but it’s now almost 6:00 and we are still at anchor. The Captain just announced that he is still hopeful that we can dock sometime tonight. (this is an overnight port for us). So… it was a very uneventful day for us, but probably a good thing as I’m hurting a bit from the stop yesterday (but I wouldn’t have missed it for anything).