Jonathan (CD) & Captain Arno Jutten
This afternoon we received some bad news from the Captain. He announced that, due to bad weather and worsening sea conditions we were going to have to delay our stop at Easter Island by 24 hours and even that stop would be iffy. Later on in the afternoon in his "Ask the Captain" segment he showed copies of weather maps and course plots. Even with the delay, starting tomorrow afternoon we are likely to experience 4 meter seas (13 feet) as we skirt the storm. We slowed down to 13 knots and altered our course to a more westerly course in an effort to let the storm move more southerly.
I led the interdenominational service and spoke on the book of Philemon. James Grant-Peterkin updated a full Showroom at Sea on the current situation on Easter Island and gave a number of practical hints for visiting it. Dr. Toby Sperlich gave his first lecture on the migration of the poulation into this area of the Pacific. In the afternoon James repeated his morning Easter Island presentation and this was followed by the Captain's event. We also participated in the interdenominational Bible study led by Dean. It was on Psalm 34.
After dinner Dr. Sperlich presented a short lecture on migration in the South Pacific, and he was followed by a pianist & guitar player from Texas, Bayne Bacon, whine we've seen before. He's got a dry sense of humor in his jokes and can really play the piano well. He did two medleys: Andrew Lloyd Weber and the Beattles. To finish out the night we watched two hours of BBC documentaries on the South Pacific. I feel like we're back in college, but there's no exams.
Two more sea days and hopefully we can land on Easter Island. When the Captain was asked what would happen if we could not land at Easter Island and if we could take pictures, he jokingly said, "we could do 75 laps of it, and yes pictures could be taken." With that, stay tuned.
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