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Storm delays, fuel costs push ships from Port of Palm Beach
The departures of cruise ships will cost the Port of Palm Beach thousands of dollars in lost revenues, and probably renew interest in widening the channel leading from the port to the Atlantic Ocean. BY PAT BEALL The Palm Beach PostTorpedoed by hurricane-related delays and drowning in fuel costs, Cloud X has called it quits.
The ferry with the eye-catching catamaran hull and $119 day cruises to Grand Bahama stopped sailing June 1.
Weeks earlier, the Big Easy, the giant purple day-cruise sister ship to the Palm Beach Princess, also pulled anchor and left the Port of Palm Beach.
The back-to-back departures will cost the port thousands of dollars in lost revenues, and probably renew interest in widening the channel leading from the port to the Atlantic Ocean.
Air Jamaica launches new website
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Strong thunderstorms reported over north Miami-Dade, south Broward
A series of strong thunderstorms were moving across northern Miami-Dade County into south Broward County Wednesday afternoon, said the National Weather Service in Miami.At 11:55 a.m., a band of strong thunderstorms was moving north around 10 mph. The storms extended from Krome Avenue across Doral to Hialeah and Opa-locka. It will move through Miami Lakes, North Miami Beach, Carol City and Aventura and into south Broward around Hallandale Beach and Miramar. This band of storms is producing wind gusts as high as 40 mph along with brief heavy rains and occasional lightning strikes.
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Food, glorious food - Sunday travel section digest
"You don't expect to read the words 'Manhattan' and 'kayak' in the same sentence." Matt Rudd (The Sunday Times) is right. You don't. Of all the ways to see Manhattan - by skyscraper, helicopter or boat - kayak would not be the first conveyance to spring to mind. This is where the Manhattan Kayak Company comes in. Rudd, a complete beginner, has 35 minutes of training - on dry land, the carpet of the Kayak Company to be precise - and then hits the Hudson River, paddling where, in the words of the hard-boiled receptionist: "In one direction, you got the mile-wide Hudson. In the other, you got 3,000 miles of Atlantic tidal power." Hooray for Hollywood for there are two features on it today. Tim Jepson (The Sunday Telegraph) discovers that West Hollywood, where the stars come out to party, is packed full of bustling cafes, clubs and shops, while Daisy Waugh (The Mail on Sunday) goes in search of early Hollywood, when "Hollywood Boulevard was still surrounded by orange groves and film stars weren't yet required to speak".
Eye of the storm
PERHAPS the most dangerous stunt Johnny Depp, as Captain Jack Sparrow, performed in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was eluding hurricanes during the treacherous tropical storm season in the Bahamas."We were evacuated on a daily basis," he reveals. "There was a daily monitoring of the National Hurricane Centre when we were down there in Grand Bahamas.
"You would be watching them closely and you'd see them turn and there were memories of what happened during Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi."
Shooting Dead Man's Chest – the third Pirates instalment set for release next year – back-to-back in the Bahamas and West Indies with a combined budget of $300 million, involved more than 600 people.
"It was really strange," Depp says, "sitting there with (director) Gore Verbinski and (producer) Jerry Bruckheimer and the rest of the producers, watching for the storm.
Martina's still in the hunt
LONDON: She will be eligible for her pension from the Women's Tennis Association in October. So Martina Navratilova, who turns 50 on October 18, figures it's fitting she retire from competitive tennis this year, which makes this Wimbledon fortnight her last.Her farewell is being met with less fanfare than that of Andre Agassi, who bowed out after his final match to an extended standing ovation at Centre Court last Saturday. Few ticket-holders seem aware, in fact, that Navratilova is competing at Wimbledon at all, her matches relegated to the more intimate side courts.
But she is chasing two grand slam titles to add to her career haul of 58. And she inched one step closer on Tuesday, advancing to the quarter-finals of the women's doubles with her playing partner Liezel Huber of South Africa with a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Russia's Anastasia Myskina and Elena Likhovtseva.