Noon Reading: Position: S 17° 32.30′, W 149° 34.19′ Speed: At anchor Course: At anchor Having a 9:00 excursion shouldn’t make that much difference from a 9:30 lecture. But somehow it does. Maybe it’s the fact that the meeting point is a couple-hundred yards down the pier. More likely it’s because the 9:00 excursion is […]
Noon reading: Position: S 17° 29.80′, W 149° 51.40′ Speed: At anchor Course: At anchor A few interesting facts about the island: It is generally pronounced: Mo-orena. The island we see today is based on the remnants two caldera from ancient volcanoes (along with its coral reef) There are 11 fresh water springs on the island.
Noon Reading Location: S 16° 30.84′, W 151° 45.35′ Speed: At Anchor Course: At Anchor We took the advantage of our later arrival in Bora Bora (arrival at 11:00) to have a bit of a lie-in. Eventually we were up and about and fed and ready to proceed. First it was up to the upper
Noon Reading: Position: S 10° 20.57′, W 152° 51.99′ Speed: 17.5 knots Course: 170º After a brisk walk on the deck, and a cold shower to try to stop the south-sea island perspiration, Cheryl declared that today was ‘Waffle Day’. So we were off to Mamsen’s for arguably the best waffles in existence. But not
Noon Position: S 03° 27.50′, W 153° 52.90′ Heading: 172 Speed: 17.0 knots OK, not that much comfort. Actually the sea feels pretty much the same today as it did yesterday. The morning was spent in a couple of meetings – via zoom. Daughter Kim and I tested the Zoom link a couple of days
Noon Position: N 03° 05.46′, W 154° 53.85′ Speed: 16.0 knots, Course: 170º It was high winds and occasional spitting rain (or was it salt spray?) this morning – made the deck 2 outing quite interesting. After breakfast I had a last bit of homework to finish before tomorrow’s meeting so we skipped the first
Noon Position: N 09º 37′ 37.64″ – W 155º 58′ 44.68″ Heading: 172º, Speed 17 Knots (~19.5 mph) Walking on deck 2 this morning felt a bit like riding a rocking horse. The swells weren’t huge (by comparison to prior days) but there was enough up and down to make life interesting. After breakfast we
Noon Position: N 16º 13′ 40.63″ – W 157º 05′ 22.00″ Heading: 169º, Speed: 17 knots Having left Hawaii behind we’re headed almost due south to Bora Bora. We’re on a crossing of 5 sea days and should arrive at 11:00 on Saturday. There was a beautiful sunrise from deck 2 this morning, but I
Noon Position: N 21º 18′ 07.57″ – W 157º 51′ 55.33″ Today’s featured activity was a bus tour of town on the way to Pearl Harbor. The tour was much the same as yesterday. So I spent the time playing with new features in iPhone photos. Arriving at Pearl Harbor we had just over 2
Noon Position: N 21º 18′ 07.77″ – W 157º 51′ 55.50″ I promise, this is the last sunrise picture (until the next killer sunrise): During this morning’s Deck Trek we pulled into Honolulu harbor. Cheryl and I had signed up for the excursion to the Bishop Museum. Eventually they got things sorted out and they