We crossed the Equator at 9pm this evening with no fanfare whatsoever! Perhaps we’ll have ceremony when we cross again going back to San Diego.
The Captain gave us all a glass of champagne this evening to apologise for missing Fanning Island, and we have been told that there will no change to the itinerary as it would too complex and costly to change at this time.
Friday April 15, 2016; A VERY Long Day at Sea!
Well this will turn out be the longest day ever for us! 48 hours to be exact as we have recrossed the International Date Line and recovered the day we lost on Tuesday. The clocks went back 24 hours early on Saturday morning and it miraculously became early on Friday morning – again! Although we never reached the 180th Meridian because Fanning Island’s sphere of influence stretches across the Pacific westward the International Date Line jogs significantly eastward to include Fanning Island on the westward side of the line.
We’ve really moved into the tropics now; it’s very warm and humid and there are frequent showers around, but we have ben getting some great sunsets. We’ve been able to walk the deck after dinner as it’s still warm at night and we are seeing some very different constellations in the heavens. Glad I’ve got my app on my phone to figure out what we are looking at.
We’ve been continuing to enjoy talks on the ports that we will be visiting in the Cook and Society Islands over the next week and have a much better idea of what to expect and to do while we are there.
We’ve been to every talk given by Capt. Paul Eshcenfelder and we need to check out his website before we get to the Islands as he been on this cruise before and also has a lot of useful information for us; www.Captaincruising.net and www.captaincruising.wordpress.com.
Prior to our expected arrival at Fanning Island we had all been asked to make donations that could be given to the islanders during our visit. Obviously, that didn’t quite go to plan and so the ship called ahead to all of our future ports of call to see who would accept the 4 pallets of donations and the only port that is prepared to accept it is our next port of call, Rarotonga. The pallets will be given to the Red Cross there and they will hand them out to the needy in the Cook Islands.
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