February 27 - March 1, 2016, - Days 53 to 56 - Sea Days

I really wish I could offer more to say about our sea days. The fact is they are pretty uneventful. The highlights are the talks by our port lecturer, Barbara. She offer insights into the things to see and do in our upcoming stops. These are very helpful, and we attend them religiously.

I continue working on my needlepoint. I have not had much time for it though. Much of my time has been spent updating this blog for our days in Darwin and Indonesia. It was great fun to relive those. But extremely time consuming. Uploading our pictures and trying to pick out some that are reflective of our experiences takes a lot of time as well. My goal is to have the posts ready for uploading, when we reach a port with decent wifi.

The lecturers that have come aboard are decent, but not great, presenters. One of them is not well organized. This leads to distraction as he works his way through the material. At times it seems as though he puts up a slide and then wonders how it got there. Must have had an associate assemble the martial. One of his talks was enough for me. The other lecturer is speaking on topics I have not interest in. Not his fault. This gives me more time for other things.

We spent three days ploughing through heavy seas in a 14 foot swell. The wind was blowing on our nose at 50 plus miles per hour for at least two days. This made for significant pitching with moderate rolling. The seasick bags came out again. We were unaffected and rather enjoyed it, as there seemed to be fewer people out and about.