At Sea
November 17, 2022
As we continue south down the eastern coast of Africa it is becoming noticeably cooler with less humidity. The captain said we will be continually be picking up more wind and have larger swells. We have already noticed this today. The captain also said that one of stops had to be cancelled because of timing of tides. There will not be enough clearance for the ship during the date and time we will be there. Instead of Banjul, Gambia we will stop in Dakar, Senegal. I was able to cancel the tour we had already booked. I think we are going to do a bike tour or walking tour in Dakar.
The 1pm trivia today was hilarious. Victoria is from Colombia and her accent is hard to interpret. Sometimes it is not even the accent it is the questions or possible answer she gives. She started one of the questions with the possible answers. Answer a) 1000 BC – 1000 AD . Answer b) 2000 BC to 30, 000 AD. There was of course an uproar with this. I’m not sure if she even gave the question since the answers were so far off. We had a good laugh amongst ourselves.
We did another wine tasting after trivia. We sat amongst a group of folks who were a lot less pretentious than the last few tastings we did and it was fun. We tasted 2 wines from New Zealand and two from Australia. The Australian wines were from the Hunter Valley region and we had taken a tour of a winery in that region on our trip back in 2020. The descriptions of the wines and the bouquet are rather hilarious. Earthy, violet, cranberry. I added church incense. This is what I noted. None of the others noticed that. Must have been my upbringing.
We did evening trivia and called it a night. Good day of rejuvenation.…