At Sea. Started life today with a lovely breakfast during which we watch a pod of dolphins frolicking under our restaurant window, where of course we didn't have our cameras. Five couples, and not a single camera between us! Still we have the memory forever.
The sea is flat calm, and the sun is beautiful - what more can we ask for? Well as we continue to sail South, a whale or two would be nice, and lo we see several, blowing, then breaching, before diving to unimaginable depths - the sea here is over two miles deep. Always when the camera isn't with us!
We start walking enjoying the warmth on one side of the ship but noticing the relative cool on the other, before long the latter is palatable and the former intolerable. We humans are so fickle.
After lunch we seek solace inside for a while and take photos of more public rooms, I'm amused to find the room we last saw in 2012 as the location of a murder-mystery dinner has this week been transformed into a sewing room with about thirty machines for a quilter's gathering. They were delighted to show me what's what in detail, but I retreated as soon as was politely acceptable.
As day turns to evening we observe a small percentage going to dinner dressed appallingly in shorts and tee-shirts and other styles I can t bring myself to commit to record. We especially feel for the couples where the lady has actually made an effective although the man clearly couldn't give a fig. "Why I remember when people like that took themselves up to the lido and didn't come back until they could without being seen." I really dispair about how the cruise industry is too scared to try and redress the balance between slobbish laziness and what's acceptable - there are plenty of ships where dress doesn't matter, so why not identify those where it does and keep our standard up? I know plenty of fellow passengers who agree with me!
On to dinner, and I'm trying out the crab legs - about 10 huge spider legs bursting with meat - they were lovely but required a lot of patience beforehand.
Finally it was the comedian from last week, you will remember he devided the house. Well ts time I think 90% of the rather small audience was left behind. Perhaps the problem is that this American guy has one Canadian and one English parent, so this ungodly mix of curious humour was struggling to find a sympathetic ear. Personally I thought him very funny indeed.
The Internet in being impossible so no idea if/when I will post my photos and/or this blog, but they come from different devices so one might fair bett than the other.
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