After this blog, I am going to publish earlier writings which might be of interest. These were either lost temporarily, or just forgotten. They may add a little bit to that which was published at the time.
Today was a welcome day at sea after a most enjoyable call at Arica yesterday, not only ending our time in Chile, with its enormous contrasts, but also being just three hours behind the U.K. which we have been since vacating the Amazon River, what feels like years ago! I still haven’t managed to upload photographs; if I have done it right, pictures now take far too long to upload, using valuable internet time. The weather was as it should be, dry and rather warm. At lunchtime, our revered Captain announced that we had sailed 17,373 nautical miles since leaving Southampton. We were, at midday, just 15 degrees 32 minutes south of the Equator. Tonight, the “baby captain” (as christened by the ship’s comedian) will be showing us the “sky at night” pointing out what might be visible only south of the Equator.
Lawrence from the Photo Gallery at the aft end of Deck 3 has been an enormous help teaching me how to navigate my over-complicated compact camera which actually is a remarkable piece of kit. The masses of instructions which came with the camera when I bought it just over two years ago are in every language EXCEPT English. I have achieved acceptable results over the years. Hopefully, I can acquire further “know-how” from a professional. Cunard, needless to say have charged me $49.95 for this hour’s tuition. To be fair, both photographers have afforded me a great deal of time already, and such assistance is hard to find back home. And Sam did a brilliant job of my birthday celebrations.
I have a long day planned for tomorrow; I shall be making the most of my two days at Callao. In the meantime, the next dated blogs are “retro” and should arrive straight after this.
Thanks for reading, David 18.19hrs off the Peruvian Coast.
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