Normally sea days are pretty relaxing, but the combination of the new format of this EXC cruise and my responsibilities leading the interdenominational service made for a very busy day, The interdenominational service at 9am went well and we had approximately 60 people attend. There was a large interest in doing a devotional time on sea days, so we scheduled that for 4pm in the Explorer's Lounge which we later changed to the Half Moon Room.
Following the international service there was a "Phoneography" session with Ben Brain. As part of that class we walked around the promenade deck taking pictures and then had the opportunity to critique them. It was a very good class and was dominated by iPhone users. I liked one of my pictures so much I entered it in the photo contest.
Afterwards there was another EXC lecture on Tropical Rain Forests and in the afternoon was an excellent lecture by Kim Macquarrie on the Incas where I learned that there was some 6,000 years of civilization leading up to their time. Ben also held a short class on Photo Composition which was very good also. A fellow passenger, Dean, led our interdenominational devotional time after which Angela and I enjoyed a LIDO dinner. All the while we cruised along at around 9-10 knots.
The. Main Stage entertainment tonight was a new show by Mark Donohue. We then went to the EXC story time where we learned that 6 more zodiacs would be loaded in South America. Also there will be no zodiac trips until after the ship leaves Papeete on 10/28. It seems getting permits is a big issue preventing their use in Polynesia.
Most of the EXC tours in our next port tomorrow of Golfito are sold out so we'll just 'Wing it'. Stay tuned to see what we end up doing.
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