At sea

Some of my friends, well one, says my photos lack colour and she’s glad we’re wearing red!!  Does she realise we are not in suburban Melbourne or at Stuart Mill? Sorry, Mrs G, we haven’t seen the sun for a while now and seals, penguins and icebergs are not multi- coloured LOL! Just goes to show you can’t please everyone all of the time!!!  But I do appreciate all feedback!  Having said all that, it is a lot more colourful at dinner - we have a lady from Sydney (probably the only couple we haven’t actually sat with for a meal) and she is totally dressed for a South Seas or Caribbean cruise - complete with a shock of dyed blonde hair, very tight white pants and a bulbous tent top with rhinestones and diamentes and sunglasses and gold shoes to top it off.  And that’s every night.  Most guests are fairly low key dress wise but this lady is something else.  

We left Laurie Island after our visit this morning and are now en route to Elephant Island.  There is absolutely no guarantee we will land there, not even a guarantee we can do a Zodiac cruise but at the very worst we will do a ship’s cruise as is apparently a beautiful island. We are only a couple of days off reaching the Antarctic Peninsular so everyone has fingers crossed for fine weather.  

I went to a lecture this afternoon on William Speirs Bruce, an early Scottish explorer who did 10 Polar expeditions then to the briefing which happens every day  at 6.45 pm before dinner.  This is a recap of the day’s activities and expectations for the following day.  Dinner was fun, by now we are pretty much all best friends (!!!!!) and after dinner there was a Q & A in the lounge with the hotel/restaurant chiefs!  A lot of fun questions such as how do the lettuces remain fresh to how long will the watermelon last etc etc etc!!!!! I badly wanted to ask why the scones at afternoon tea are like bullets but didn’t want to look silly! Maybe that’s the way the rest of the world likes their scones!!!!! 

Will sleep well after a couple of Limonchello’s.