Norwegian Breakaway Waits to Enter Channel into Port Canaveral, Florida

It’s 4:30 p.m. aboard Norwegian Breakaway. We’re spinning our wheels approximately six miles from the entrance to the Canaveral Barge Canal, which will take us into Port Canaveral, Florida. We were scheduled to arrive at 1 p.m., 3½ hours ago. My two-week western Caribbean cruise departed two days ago from New York. We left 4 hours 40 minutes behind schedule because of Breakaway’s tardy arrival into the Big Apple the morning of Jan. 19.

I’ve spent most of the cruise so far asleep after a grueling and horrendous week moving out of my apartment of 11 years in Washington. This is my first trip setting out for 1-2 years of being a global nomad.

There’s nothing to do at Port Canaveral itself, although strangely it is one of the world’s busiest cruiseports due to its location east of Orlando. It’s quite perplexing why we are not bypassing this stop and proceeding toward our next port of call at Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. But I’m grateful for this stop in Florida as I have several things I didn’t get done online before departing New York. Once we pull into port, I’ll have cellphone service and can tether my phone to my laptop to get some urgent things done.

The channel into Port Canaveral is one-way, the captain announced. That’s why we are sitting here waiting for some outgoing vessels. I was fortunate to get an upgrade from an interior cabin to a balcony stateroom for only $100 for this two-week cruise. I slept 23 hours today, waking up at 10 a.m. Feeling horrible; taking cold medicine for an awful cough and stuffy nose. I was only awake two hours yesterday.
Filmed Jan. 21, 2018

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