Seadays

January 29, 2023

Good day, we are in the middle of 4 sea days in a row before we get to Tonga. It is quite warm outside this afternoon, perfect time to get to my ” little office in the Ocean Bar ” to do a little writing. Last night we had an event called the Derby, all lady’s were encouraged to where their fanciest hat. Also last night was another so called Bar Hop. It entailed traveling between 4 different bars on the ship and in each bar we had to do an activity. It was well attended and lots of fun.

In all of the seadays we had since Panama, we have seen only 2 other ships so far. It looks like we are the only ones traveling the ocean in this part of the world. There is a geologist on board, he is doing lectures on rock formations and how they were created. He mentioned that the ocean is around 1400 ft deep where we are cruising at the the moment. When we get closer to Tonga there are areas where the depth goes up to around 27,000 ft. A lot of that has to do with volcanic activity and previous earth quakes in that area. It’s hard to imagine, that if I dropped my cellphone overboard, it goes for a 5 mile ride to the bottom of the ocean. I wonder how long that will take before it hit bottom. Yesterday we went from January 27 to January 29 and skipped January 28. This happened as we crossed the international date line. It is just to bad if it happened to be your birthday, no party for you. But looking on the bright side, you’re not getting any older either. Tomorrow morning we are arriving in Tonga, looking forward to that. Adios!

“My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been.”

By – Diane Arbus

Cheers