Another seaday. The sea started out smooth enough, but has developed a bit of a rock n roll thing for us as the day progressed. The captain did warn us that today would be OK, but tomorrow is gonna be pretty rough, but it will all calm down for our last sea day on Saturday as we get closer to Southampton. That’s good actually, because Peter is organising an exhibition of everyone’s work for that day. We don’t want everyone feeling too ill to come see.
It’s been cold and windy outside, so we didn’t spend too much time on deck, but we did go see Moss’s presentation about Africa. We’ll never remember what he’s told us, but we can try.
We’ve spent loads of time in the cabin today, on the computers. Peter is working, looking after his online students etc. I spent the day going through my photo’s, of which there are hundreds, deleting the duff ones and renaming the good ones. I’ve only got as far as Santarem so far.
Peter had a class of 41 today, and as usual they all seemed happy. It’s “British” night tonight, which means we all wear red, white and blue (or your national colours if you don’t come from good ole blighty), and join in on patriotic songs in the Neptune Lounge. Well done Sophie for getting Peter his union jack t shirt.
Anyway, because there isn’t much to say about the day, more piccies.. These are from Bridgetown, Barbados where we went to Harrison’s Cave in the morning
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| Gardens around Harrison's cave are lovely |
These are from Castries, St Lucia where we did escort duty to the Mamiku gardens. The view overlooking th port of Castries shows four cruise ships. The one first left is a Royal Caribbean ship, second left is the Boudicca, which looks absolutely tiny, the third from the left is another Royal Caribbean cruiser and the little one furthest right is a Silver Seas ship and about the same size as ours. The little cruisers carry around 850 passengers and 300 crew. Those big monsters carry 3500 people. Basically, they bring a small town full of people into a city or port. Much too big to go down the Amazon though!
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| Orchids in Mamiku gardens |
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| Spider orchids |
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