Just came up from breakfast - best meal of the day, even if it is quite
redundant. Not saying they serve a boring meal (they do not), but my
breakfast choice is always the same - toast, oatmeal with raisins and
sugar, watermelon, yogurt, and coffee. I have been told, by those who
ate last night, that I missed a delicious desert. Why, you may ask, did
I miss desert (and dinner)? Mal de mer! Just not feeling quite up to
anything other than being horizontal in my bunk. Felice got some of
those magic blue pills from the doctor - and I slept. Took one this
morning, and will continue to pop one every six hours until we are back
on terra firma.
It is a lot of fun watching my fellow travelers bouncing around while
attempting to move from place to place. "Keep one hand for the ship"
is the rule, and as I write, the ship is bobbing around on large swells.
We have been told to expect heavier winds later in the day. Since I am
fairly sure that today is Wednesday which means we have another couple
of days of acrobatics before docking in Ushuaia.
Time to begin the packing/unpacking/repacking routine. My Wellies are
stuffed full with small items, and that is as far as I have gotten. We
have a couple of lectures today, as well as the movie "An Inconvenient
Truth". If nothing else, we are kept busy. Did I tell you we took a
tour of the engine room? I believe I did - so won't tell you again.
An interesting point of information - I could have brought half of what I
packed and done just fine. All of us are walking around in the same
outfits most days. There is really no reason to change other than if
your clothing gets wet.
Already it feels as if it has been days and weeks since we sat among the
penguins, watched humpbacks breech, identified various species of birds,
visited Polish, Ukranian, and British scientific stations, and captured
photographs of leopard seals looking directly in our faces as we skimmed
across the water to our next landing. As with most adventures - this has
been too short (Other than our time in The Drake Passage, which has been
to long), and I am unwilling to leave this pristine world.
Gotta close. Four albatrosses behind the ship. Until later..
TheWanderingJu
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