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What can I say. This is what happens when a pandemic gets in the way of your travel plans for a couple of years. So in January 2021 we booked a cruise – from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to London – by way of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mumbai, Rome. You get the picture. So buckle up buttercup and let’s see how this all plays out.
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One additional note. Our cruise ship has wifi. It’s supposed to work in the middle of the ocean. But I’m not sure how much bandwidth we’ll have to upload photos and videos, so posts might be delayed from time to time. Bear with me and we’ll see what we can do.
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Noon report: Position: S 27° 25.70′, W 166° 05.64′ Speed: 17.1 knots Course: 241º The walk yesterday morning was particularly brutal – hot and humid, so I decided to try something different. I’ve found that I’m ususally awake around 4:30 every morning – coming out of a REM cycle, doing a fluid adjustment, then back […]
Noon Reading: Position: S 24° 02.80′, W 159° 50.41′ Speed: 15.1 knots Course: 241º We’re firmly back on our sea day schedule: Exercise, Breakfast 9:30 History of New Zealand – Settlement and colonization by the Maoris, Europeans, and others 11:00 Japanese Perspectives on the Pacific War After lunch Cheryl had a massage and Randy worked
Noon Reading: Position: S 20° 09.23′, W 153° 30.19′ Speed: 16.8 knots Course: 236º …we’re heading southwest toward New Zealand. We are scheduled to arrive on Tuesday January 31 after 5 days at sea. And if you are confused by the math, so are we. The best we can do at this point is say
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