at Sea
November 25, 2022
Nice recovery day from Cape Town and the Safari. Winds are quite strong and the Captain said they will be getting stronger all day. His noon announcement came with the usual position information and weather information. He also added that he is cancelling the next port of call which is Luderitz in Namibia. Unfortunately this is a tender port and the rough seas will create havoc while trying to board the tenders. The passengers on long cruises like this one are full of folks past retirement age. The scale of stubbornness is very high. There are many passengers that should not be on tours that say “strenuous”. Unfortunately, stubborness and the self centered nature over takes rational thinking. Getting these people on the tender would take an unfathomable amount of effort and it is much easier and probably smarter to cancel the port of call.
The Captain did announce that there will be a complimentary happy hour in the Crow’s Nest at noon tomorrow because of the cancelled port of call. Expect a crowd.
Another surprise, Jeremy, our cruise director has covid. He is isolation for the next few days and Erika is taking over for him. Maybe someone is thinking as I do. If masks work, and he wore a mask the entire time, why didn’t the mask work?
Probably not enough people using the new hand washing stations, or failure to use the hand sanitizer. Maybe the crew is not scrubbing the handrails hard enough or wiping down the door frames correctly.
We will be cruising past our next port of call, Wallis Bay, and then turning around. A minimum speed is required to use the stabilizers on this ship and without them we all would be tossing cookies. Thankfully, the next port is not a tender port.
Team trivia was a bit different today. True or false. Fact or Urban Myth. 50/50 chance on each question. Think we did any better? No. I was given the Mozart question. “We don’t know where Mozart is buried”. Erika said the answer is true. Actually we do know where he is buried. In Austria, we just are not sure of the correct plot. My answer of false was incorrect. Marilyn Monroe has 11 toes? Nails and hair grow continue to grow for up to a week after death?
Dinner on the Lido next to the pool. African Barbecue was the theme. The Ocean Bar band played. The bassist and lead singer, Molly, is outstanding. I’m not sure what she is doing playing these three others on a cruise ship. She is ready to record some original material. Incredible voice. One of the better bassists aboard also.
Tonight’s entertainment was comedian Mark Sampson. He was chatting it up with a gent at the gym while I was doing sit-ups. He sounded quite normal and decided to see his act. He said it was his first time performing on a cruise ship. He is from London but has lived in South Africa for the last 30 years. He didn’t connect with his audience at all. He kept looking at his notes next to his water bottle. I have nothing against notes and I use them all of the time. The expression on his face as he stared at them told me that he knew he needed different material. He kept looking as if something else would appear on his notes but nothing did. Terri fell asleep. I gave him a 1.
Team trivia…