It finally started to get warmer as we have entered Polynesian waters. Throughout the day we would see various islands and around 9am some whales breeched off the port side. I didn't see them as I was in the shower. The showroom at sea was occupied all morning with Polynesian immigration activity which my wife and I didn't have to participate in as we are staying on the ship for another 14 days until October 28. I did take in a dessert and salad cooking demonstration in the Wajang theatre by the Polynesian Chef Sam Timoko which was quite good. Angela spent the time practicing ukelele for a performance to be held tomorrow and I walked a couple of miles around the outside deck.
The lectures in the afternoon included Dr. Sperlich on Tuamotu Archeology (we are visiting two of the islands in the Tuamotu group in a few days). Kaiona gave a very good overview of what to expect in the upcoming ports of call, and the EXC guide David also spoke more specifically on the two upcoming ports of Fakarava and Rangiroa. After turkey dinner (it was Canadian thanksgiving day), Al Trujillo presented a short session on Flotsam in the sea. The "comedian" was an encore performance of Dan St. Paul, but a number of us didn't care for it. He had a couple of videos with offensive language that I especially didn't appreciate. We attended Dr. Sperlich's story time about his first visit to Samoa and finding a family to live with while he did his PhD research. We squeezed in a movie, Basami Blues ( an Indian movie that was like watching Hunger Games meets Monsanto Chemical and Mamma Mia) and finished up the night watching the Indonesian crew show,
The clock is getting rolled back again tonight, and we have one more sea day and one final roll back of the clock before we reach Fakarava. Stay tuned.
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