Cloudy, very warm, the ocean is in motion, periodic showers.
The second sea day and we are enjoying it. Tomorrow, Devil's Island, or more properly The Salvation Islands, one of the three in the group is called Devil's Island. No tours there as you can walk around it in less than an hour. Located seven miles off the coast of French Guiana.
PS. I have always been confused with: French Guiana, Guinea, & Guyna. And Suriname, right next to French Guiana, where Devil's Island is. Who knew?
After we leave there we have three islands in The Caribbean and then two sea days and home. So, for me at least, after we come back on board, The Adventure is over. A week tomorrow and we are home, whatever the weather may be, it is home.
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Today I took a tour of the storage and kitchen area, or at least part of the kitchen. Fellette has a bit of a cough still so she went to the talk on Egypt and the Pharaohs.
Right now we are having about the roughest seas we have had the whole trip. Rougher than Cape Horn, which was almost a lake. I have a theory that seems ridiculous but I will throw it out there: We have left the South Atlantic and the Southern Hemisphere where they are having their summer. We are now in the Northern Hemisphere and in the North Atlantic, in winter! What do you think of that for utter nonsense.
When we awoke this morning, the water was still muddy although we had been out in the Atlantic for several hours. The Amazon is said to dump about 100,000,000 cubic feet of sediment a day into the ocean, so that accounts for muddy ocean. I find that figure staggering but it has been mentioned twice here in talks.
Tonight was a Formal Night so we four got gussied up and had a pre-dinner drink in the Crow's Nest and then down for a delicious dinner, with wine compliments of the captain.
It was a fitting end to a great day and almost the end of the cruise. There is one more Formal night, one day out of Fort Lauderdale but most of the packing will be done that day and we may not be so gussied up.
The kitchen tour today...
In the crews recreation area, at least the Muslim and Philippine members area. We all felt uneasy in there, we did not know it was the crew's recreation area when we went in.
They have a person designated to the fresh flowers on the ship. Flowers are everywhere.
Cool room for vegetables and fruit.
Beverage storage.
Soup kettles. It thoroughly disrupts the kitchen to have us come trapping through. It all has to be sterilized after we go and we cannot be in an area where there is active food preparation going on for sanitary reasons. What if somebody sneezed in there???
Who are these lovely people? Piña Coladas, two for one.
Happy girls...
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