September 25, 2024 by Peg

Shanghaied Day 7

Get up, get outside, get a mile walk in, get coffee and breakfast with Christie

Six cruise ships. All lined up here today.

We are the top right hand. One. A pilot boat just went by. My guess is we’ll have to wait in line in order to get out of the harbor.

I didn’t get off the boat. Sorry, my sense of adventure has waned with advancing age. I did however supervise all the activities on my side of the ship.

One of the crew activities today has been exercising the port side lifeboats. It didn’t necessarily go well.

This winch thing got jammed and they couldn’t get the lifeboat back onto the ship. I guess as a passenger, the important thing is that they could get the lifeboat into the ocean. Eventually they got a bigger hammer and the lifeboat came back on board.

I supervised stunningly expensive yachts.

And modest Island supply boats.

Plus numerous party and sight seeing boats. I for one never understood getting off a perfectly good big boat to get on a little boat.

A sad/interesting thing was watching palm trees being dug up and put on a barge. Just guessing they are in route to Florida where they’ll bring $3000 to $4,000 a piece. Maybe more.

Eeek. I have a mouse in my sardine can.

Two sea days the home Saturday.

And that’s about it for today from deck 5.

Drinks, Dinner, Espresso. Soon.

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