The Majestic Princess is docked in Seattle waiting for a storm to pass. It's the last cruise this season to Alaska and the winds and seas are high. I watched a You Tube of a passenger I follow who said it was rough on Saturday night on his trip into Seattle on the Majestic. Apparently the Serenade of the Seas is doing 22 knots to rush to Seattle ahead of the storm. When you sail out of Vancouver it's complete inside passage with Vancouver Island as a buffer! Then it's the east side of Haida Gwaii, not the west side. In the good weather, no problems but when the Pacific storms hit it can be rough.
I realized yesterday it's one year until our cruise to Australia. Right now Australia is not letting cruise ships dock. They are banned until March 2022 right now but that could be extended. I checked the Australian vaccination rate and only 42% of Australians are double vaccinated. The problem was their government didn't secure vaccine.
This is the Grand Princess. It set sail for the first time in 18 months last Saturday. It's sailing out of Los Angeles to Mexico, California coast and Hawaii itineraries. It repositions to Vancouver in April when it starts sailing from Vancouver to Alaska 7 days north and 7 days south.
