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Hawaiian Radiance: Ensenada

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December 12, 2025

Good morning! We are in Ensenada today, but it is the last day of the cruise. Before leaving my room, I left a thank you note and additional tip for the steward. 

This shows our current position. We aren’t quite to Ensenada yet but we’re getting close.

We have another short…


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Ensenada Famous Blow Hole

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December 8, 2025

My trip to Ensenada was just to satisfy the rule about making a foreign port call on my Hawaiian cruise. Because of that we didn’t have a very long port day.
There weren’t many tour options. I went with the World Famous Blow Hole tour which was $50 through Carnival….


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Hawaiian Radiance: Day 13

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December 5, 2025

Good morning. Today is our last sea day before we reach Ensenada. One thing about this room location. It hasn’t been much of a problem but one day I could hear a bunch of workers laughing and talking like echoing under the floor. Now I hear someone whistling. The…


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Stargazing

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December 1, 2025

These are the slides from Kate Chapman’s Stargazing presentation on Carnival Radiance. Social media and contact information for her are on the last slide.


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Hawaiian Radiance: Day 12

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November 28, 2025

Good morning. Today is yet another sea day as we make our way to Ensenada, Mexico. The coffee line is five deep this morning.

I headed to the Pig & Anchor for the 8:30 nature walk and nobody was there.

I hung around to catch the wake. 

Within five minutes the naturalist…


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Reef Romance

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November 24, 2025

These are the slides from Steve the Naturalist’s Reef Romance Presentation on Carnival Radiance.


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Hawaiian Radiance: Day 11

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November 21, 2025

Good morning. We lost an hour in the time change this morning. We’ll be losing an hour each day on our way to Ensenada. 

The coffee line is only two deep this morning.

It looks nice out here but it’s extremely windy.

I headed back in to the atrium bar and got…


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Hawaiian Corals

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November 17, 2025

These are the slides from Steve The Naturalist’s Hawaiian Corals presentation. Be sure to follow Steve on social media at Steve The Naturalist.


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Hawaiian Radiance: Day 10

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November 14, 2025

Good morning! I slept in a bit and got some laundry ready. I had to ask the steward for more laundry bags. I could’ve filled two but I only had one. I knew I was going to have a lot of laundry. I changed clothes three times on the…


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Hawaiian Radiance: Hilo

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November 10, 2025

Good morning. We are working our way to Hilo on the big island of Hawaii. This isn’t the last port day, but it is the last Hawaii port day. The towel animal takeover is normally done with small towel animals. Today they have life size ones.

It looks like Big…

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