Shanghai
Since all the citizens of Doris Nation have already seen pictures of every sand barge in China via her beat the chinese media blockade e-mail quasi blog, I'll just add a little text and commentary.
The ship's entry into the harbor was delayed due to extreme fog. A sound decision since there are 7,468 ships all moving at once in a river less wide than between Detroit and Windsor. Sort of 696 during rush hour, except with 100 to 100,000 ton ships.
Plus since the river has tides, one has to wait for high tide even to try. Net of it was a 12 hour delay
This gave us another half day 'at sea'. The upside was we got to watch the 6 hour passage to Shanghai cruise port during the day.
Ship had two tugs, some sort of coast guard cop boat along side and a couple of river pilots on board. I guess it wouldn't do to have a bunch of overstuffed cruise ship people run aground.
ps found a way to post a blog from here hehehe
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