Saturday, 24 January 2015

Day 19 Saturday 24th January 2015 Sea Day leisurely progress towards Mexico, with glimpses of whales


Last night there was a beautiful newish moon and reflection in the sea at bed time.  How good are the peace and opportunity to take time to notice. Then the clocks went back one hour again and we are now 6 hours behind GMT. Although I originally wanted to Skype lots, the window for Skyping is now mainly the morning here, to avoid bedtimes there, and then only in port when we can get better speed wi-fi.  So the blog and Facebook are doing all the work for now.

The temperature has been a consistent 28C since we got to the Caribbean, today clear blue skies are back after a cloudy start, live music on the top deck and half a dozen different kinds of music in various indoor venues.  There’s a passenger choir who meet every day for an hour and who will be performing before we get to San Francisco on 31st.  Today at art (when painting the infamous koala!) we found out that all of our offerings are going to be exhibited in the gallery on 29th. How exciting,  I might have to make one or two (maybe a few) of my slightly disappointing ones disappear, but I am happy that Easa, our teacher  thinks they are worthy.



Around about 2 p.m. I returned to our cabin to get into my swimsuit after lunch – and while I was there Khachik and everyone else on the Lido deck saw a hump backed whale. Sadly it had disappeared by the time I got back, but it seems they are out there and when we get to Cabo for our Whale Watching Excursion we will I’m sure get close up. As Khachik had been noticing how many really obese people there were sunbathing in tight swimsusits, I am sorry to say that I thought he was referring to someone on board when he said he'd seen a hump backed whale.

Bye for now.

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