okay I don't know if I've got this right we're just leaving Los Angeles
the Ruby princess it's awfully kind of sunny all of a sudden it was
cloudy we left it was terrible it's beautiful now it's windy cool a big snow yesterday
I left you can see behind me
you hear the ways believe believe me
got a couple standing at the front of the ship here you can see them
the windy conditions where I'm saying
the Sun is setting won't be dark for about an hour and a half
hopefully it will be a nice sunny trip we'll see how it goes
another view of La behind me
kidding
okay here we are leaving LA I took some footage here with the my
zoom lens to try to catch the waves crashing on the rocks up here sorry for
the shaky video but the more you zoom in the more difficult it gets but man were
there some waves crashing on the rocks over here just spectacular and the mist
in the air from from the water hitting the rocks and you can just tell the the
movement of the waves coming in from from left to right there
palm trees up on the top of the cliffs they're just it's just spectacular with
the camera all you hear is wind and buffeting so I thought I would just
voice over this give you an idea this is north of Long Beach and beyond those
hills is the greater part of Los Angeles basically because we just departed the
port at the Port of Los Angeles near Long Beach and Here I am the next day
I'm at the back of the ship this is one of my favorite places to go on a cruise
ship right at the back watching the the wake behind the ship it's just
mesmerizing for me it calms me I love it it's rather noisy though because the
water is being turned up or churned up I suppose but the ship's width you can see
here it's about 120 feet across it's unbelievable how wide these cruise ships
are and the propellers below are propelling us forward we're probably
going about 25 knots right now so that's close to thirty miles an hour
you can't swim this fast folks if you you fall into this water you're left
behind and it is quite quite a bit of turbulence there beautiful views the
water's just turquoise sun shining on it with the white foam and then the blue
water oh it's it's so beautiful and when you're on the side of the ship looking
out you can see sometimes you can see flying fish that just come out of the
water they get scared out of the water by the actual ship itself and they'll
they'll skim over the water about a foot and a half in the air for good 50 60
even 100 feet and then they dive back into the water it's quite neat to watch
that from time to time and this is a cruise that I took on
Princess Cruises with my wife in February we went down from Los Angeles to Mazatlan
and Puerto Vallarta Cabo San Lucas just a great great cruise now this is the
back of the ship I'm about 14 stories up at the back of the ship looking down
seeing the fellow there beside the hot tub with the towel in front of him
because he's getting too much sunshine he doesn't wanna get a sunburn and
there's the wake from the back again but from a different angle and all these
lawn chairs that you see here these loungers free to use by anybody anytime
you want just help yourself grab a drink at the bar or or whatever and come on
out there and sit back and relax and check the views get some Sun you can
just see a ship of 2500 people and what do you see here maybe 15 20 people if at all
if at all a couple lounging in the pool here just sort of cooling off this is
what cruising is all about do whatever you want when you want to do it the way
you want to do it it's it's just fantastic if your your idea is to go see
the shows go see the show so you want to stay in your room stay in your room hang
out on your balcony do that this is the same angle from the same spot on the
ship but looking forward and looking towards the front of the ship you can
see how long this is I'm zooming in now under the very top for the front end of
the ship there where the radar equipment is and satellite dishes and that's I
type of thing communication systems and as the camera pans out you'll see the
balconies on the side of the ship you'll you'll see the dividers between each of
the rooms and there's only a handful of people actually out on their balcony
right now most of them are on the top of the ship or or walking through the ship
somewhere but you'll zooming is you'll see how big the ship is by how tiny the
people look to be here's a fellow here he is standing out
looking out of his balcony watching the water go by and watching the ship crash
through the various waves that are coming along but I'm holding I'm
trying to hold my camera steady but it's very difficult from this distance but he's
got to be gosh he's gotta be six hundred feet two football fields away
from me so he's hard to zoom in on there I got
him and the Sun is out we're we're south of LA by probably a day or a day and a
half by now two days so it's quite warm probably in the 80s even in February
this is just a great cruise to go on it's a one week cruise you can get some great
fares on these princess cruises or the carnival cruises on this West Coast
cruise leaving from Los Angeles coming back to Los Angeles a week later you can
park a car right at the pier for the whole week it's in a secure
parking area something like 17 bucks a day but it's worth it your car is
waiting for you when you get off the ship or if you're flying into Los Angeles you
can grab a bus that the cruise line offers they might offer you a $20 a bus
fare to the to the ship and back guaranteed not to miss the cruise
worry free you can you just relax you leave your luggage in your room and
enjoy the amenities that the ship has you just see the speed of the ship here
compared to the deck you can see the water and the gals standing there
we're just humming along here really humming along and it's a fantastic
experience highly recommend it I've done this cruise several times if you like
the channel subscribe the sunset is coming up next and it's a beautiful shot
don't mind the shaky camera but I hope you like it and we'll keep them coming
talk to you later
that's sunset it's gone
that's right see you tomorrow
Sunday February 26th 2017