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January 20, 2023 Hallo all, this morning we sailed into Papeete  on the island of Tahiti in  French Polynesia. Tahiti is the largest island pop.200,000 the capital Papeete has a pop. of approximate 27,000 . The beaches here consist mainly out of black lava sand. Away from the coast the island consist of lush greenContinue reading “Papeete, Tahiti”

January 18. 2023 This Morning we landed in Nuka Hiva the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.By some this is considered one of the remotest places on the planet.Population of 3500 over 150 sq miles.Some of you might know this place from Herman Melville’s book Typee.There has been rumors of cannibalism around thisContinue reading “Nuka Hiva”

January 16,17, 2023 Hallo all, I have to catch up on a couple of seadays. First of all Carol participated in a mixology class. This entails making fancy cocktails. She really enjoyed this class. Over the next few days I will post some of her favorites. Another activity she participated in was the towel foldingContinue reading “Seaday”

January 15, 2023 Seaday #……..Good Afternoon,Sitting in the Ocean Bar writing another story about another day at sea. Usually it’s myself and another older gentleman who roars in here on his electric scooter and then goes on to quietly reads his book in the corner by the window. Besides us two there is no oneContinue reading “Seaday #………”

Good Afternoon,  For some reason I woke up way too early. I got mixed up with the clock, instead of setting it back 1hour , I must have gone forward 1 hour. I decided to get up anyway. When I got to the eating area, there was hardly anybody there, just the odd individual whoContinue reading “Seaday #(lost Count)”

Hi all, another day at sea. The internet connection is still very intermittent, to the point that Carol isn’t able to get on Facebook at all. Don’t worry if she isn’t answering your posts. She is simple not able to respond right now. You must wonder what we do all day to keep ourselves occupied onContinue reading “Seaday”

January 10, 2023 Good Morning, today was  the first of eight seadays coming up. Today I participated in some activities events. first of all at 9:00 something called Corn Hole. This ended up something like bean back tosh. The only difference, there is only one hole to get the bag into. I have been toldContinue reading “Seaday”

January 9, 2023 Fuerte Amador ( Panama City)January 9, 2023Good Day, waking up this morning anchored outside Panama City. We are having breakfast on the back of boat on this beautiful sunny morning looking towards the skyline of the city with all its tall buildings. Today it’s a national holiday in Panama. Most government businesses,Continue reading “Panama City”

January 8, 2023 Hi all, today the Panama Canal crossing is on our schedule. Around 6:30 this morning we arrived at the first set of locks on the Atlantic side. These Locks are named the Gatun locks, raising our ship by 30 meter to get us  into Gatun Lake. This man made lake is homeContinue reading “Panama Canal”

January 7, 2023 Hallo, today we anchored in Puerto Limon a port city on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. Today we didn’t ventured off on any site seeing tours. We walked of the ship through a maze of vendors trying to sell us anything from coffee and sigars to a variety of handmade products.Continue reading “Puerto Limon, Costa Rica”