Crown Princess (II), Oceana (II) & Grand Princess
The 5th September 2009 was the last day of the season a Princess was here and we went down as we had a couple of times before.  The past few seasons it had been Oceana's sister, Sea Princess with a Grand class.  Now it was two Grand classes and a baby former Princess.  Crown Princess arrived at 7am, but she was coming from the direction of the Irish Sea after another round Britain cruise.  Oceana and Grand Princess were both coming from Norway, and there was a bad storm in the North Sea.  Oceana's original arrival time of 6.30am was changed to 8.30am while Grand was changed to 1.30pm then brought forward to 12.45pm.  Originally Crown was going to dock in Ocean Terminal with Grand in Mayflower but that changed that.  All three were still starboard.  Oceana had lost a satellite ball into the swimming pool during the storm the day before so all internet and mobile phone connection was lost.  I had planned to go over anyway for photos of Oceana starboard in QEII and Crown facing out of Ocean.  But it made more sense to stay over to await the arrival of Grand.
Someone clearly had permission to tie their boat alongside the pontoon to carry out repairs, but they moved whenever the ferry was imminent.
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			(C) Copyright Patricia Dempsey 5th September 2009 Not to be reproduced without permission