18 March Sea Day Number One

This was our first sea day of the cruise. It was our first opportunity to see how time is filled on the expedition class ships that don’t have a band, vocalists, and guest entertainment. As previously mentioned, we have a pianist, a guitarist and his accompanying vocalist. For this first sea day, these on board performers did not add any performances sticking to their cocktail hour and after dinner schedule.

The day started with a longer than normal time in the ship’s gym. We were the only ones there until about the last 15 minutes. We had ordered room service in advance and breakfast was waiting in our room.

We watched the news, BBC live in our room, as we got dressed. Karla utilized the launderette just down the hall for our second laundry day and we stayed in the room glancing at the ocean and reading until lunch.

After soup and salad, we headed for Team Trivia. We had a pretty good team, but finished second. No prize, just bragging rights. Then it was off to the first of two 45 minute lectures,

The Challenges of Sailing Around the Great Horn, and the second The Albatross. There was a 45 minute break in between, but we just stayed put and read our I Phones. The other day when I said how polished and informative the lectures had been—Well these weren’t. The speakers who previously had been great, stumbled, words didn’t match the pictures. Both repeated themselves, hemmed and hawed. It seemed there was 10 minutes of information crammed into two 45-minute lectures.

We did have a special invite to meet our fellow passengers going on beyond Buenos Aries. About 25 or 30 met for drinks and conversation in The Hide, a living room space on deck one at the front of the ship. I shared some of the excellent suggestions provided by Bruce and Valerie Goddard for Barbados activities.

Fru-Fru Drinks at the long-haul reception

Maybe we can get a group together for some independent exploration.

Every day they have wrap-up of the day’s events and a preview of the next. That was up to standard with a description of available tours and the on-board historian summarizing the history of the Falklands.

Moonrise On a Sea Day

Sunshine On A Sea Day