Today’s fun events were a pedicure and escaping the Escape room.
After the pedicure, I lounged at the Spa Terrace for a bit to let my toes dry out. It is a ‘private’ area with chaise lounges, shady & sunny areas and a hot tub. There are very few passengers here whenever I stop by.
The crew created an Escape Room in the library. Passenger teams signed up to participate. My team had a wonderful time solving the clues to come up with the phrase that would let us ‘escape’ the room.
Today’s carnival was fun. This time I played many more games and got loads of tickets and sill didn’t win any of the raffle prizes.
We had such fun at the ‘Around the World’ wine tasting earlier in the cruise, we did it again! They had tubs of wine and we got to taste whichever ones we wanted. I had some very tasty champagne/sparkling wine and sweet wines.
Jennifer and I enjoyed the Oceania Club celebration with drinks and Hors d’œuvres.
We are still 500ish nautical miles from Walvis Bay. Today the swells are about 10-12 feet and we’re still 13000+ feet above the ocean floor.
The highlight for today was the Superbowl party. The Superbowl was yesterday evening but because of the time change it was at about 1am local time. The cruise director asked everyone to keep mum about the score and we had a Superbowl party today.
The Superbowl party was such fun. The team I was cheering for won by a quite a few points to add to the excitement. The only bummer was we didn’t see any of the Superbowl commercials. There were commercials, of course, but they were all for the TV channel that broadcast the Superbowl none of the special Superbowl commercials.
We have had such calm seas, so far, on this segment. It’s weird to see the ocean so calm.
Today was fitness, a funny cook off challenge between 2 officers, a presentation on Namibia and Jennifer and I participated in a sing out loud ‘mob’. In the evening we went out star gazing.
The cruise hosts hosted a pub sing along event and the folks that have been rehearsing for our choir presentation ‘spontaneously’ stood up and started singing. It was lots of fun.
The evening star gazing didn’t turn out quite as well. The moon was almost full so the sky was bright but we could still see Jupiter and a few southern constellations. The ship lights were turned off at the top deck but folks were tripping all over the place so the lights were quickly turned back on.
Today was a slow day with not many activities and calm seas. The activities of the day were: laundry, sing out loud rehearsal, origami making and tea
We’re ‘only’ around 200 nautical miles away from Tristan Da Cunha but we still can’t see it. Still about 13,000 feet deep.
That’s one thing that I just can’t get used to- on the map things look so close but you can’t see them. Jennifer and I are using a couple of apps (Noah Weather and Marine Traffic) to show where we are compared to nearby land and ships. Even the ships look right next to us on the app but we can’t see them.
We has 3 meter sea swells all day today. The expected swells at Tristan Da Cunha were 4-5 meters. Imagine almost double the swell from the video below and you can see why we didn’t land at Tristan Da Cunha.
Last night we heard that we won’t be able to go to Tristan Da Cunha. Because of the sea conditions we wouldn’t be able to tender to the island or even set foot on land. I”m bummed as it was one of the stops I was looking forward to.
The captain changed course slightly to miss the 4 meter swells and stormy weather so that’s good news.
Another day at sea- fitness, cake decorating contest between crew groups, and sing out loud rehearsal. And we had a wine and cheese get together in our room with some friends we’ve met on board.
We’re now 620 nautical miles from the closest land which is Inaccessible island. The water is still over 13000 feet deep.
There’s a storm heading towards our next stop, the island of Tristan Da Cunha, The captain will decide later today or early tomorrow if we’ll be able to stop. Right now it’s looking unlikely as the swells are expected to grow to 4-5 meters.
Today we only just past the outside edge of Brazil. The bulge is larger and sticks out quite far.
We’re 900 nautical miles from the closest land(Brazil) and the sea here is about 4000 meters(over 13,000 feet) deep! The really odd thing is that when I look outside my window all I see is water and it looks the same as when we were ‘next’ to land and I couldn’t see the land.
Today’s at sea activities included fitness, cooking demo, sing out loud rehearsal, presentation on great inventions in the last 100 years and another one on dark matter, tea, and a Celtic rock performance
Today we start crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Namibia. It will take 10 days and we get to Namibia on the 11th day.
Last night was the last land we’ll see for awhile.
