At sea heading to Easter Island

At sea heading to Easter Island – January 18

This is one of my favorite parts of the world cruise; the long run from Peru to Easter Island. We are all hoping for favorable weather when we arrive – we hear that it has been to rough for some of the ships to anchor and do the tendering operation. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

Yesterday was much like any sea day for us mostly lounging around reading and watching the sea go by. By late afternoon we had bright blue sky with no clouds but the temperature was still relatively cool. I was surprised since we are now well out of the Humboldt current which keeps the temps down on the western shore of S America. By evening I needed a sweater to sit out on the balcony... I'm NOT complaining, I love this weather and am rather dreading the hot temperatures to come. We saw on CNN yesterday that they had record heat in part of Australia and we aren't all that far from being there.

We both went to a lecture yesterday afternoon, while the topic was very interesting, the movement of the earth's plates causing volcanoes and tsunamis, the speaker was quite dull. It was sort of like sitting in a college lecture that you didn't want to attend. I do like the topics though, so I'll attend again today. Many of the earlier presentations have been Hollywood/celebrity related which doesn't interest me much. I did go to a question and answer session with John Amos and it was good. The Daily says that there will be a choir practice this afternoon at 4 and I was going to check it out since I had so much fun doing it on the American Queen – then I realized that we will be having our cocktail party at 4:30 so I won't be able to make it.

We have had almost no internet connection since we left Peru so I'll post this when I can get on.