May 28 – Cruising The Mozambique Channel

where we bobbed

Weather – 25º (high), 25º (low), 25º (sea temp)

Steps – 5,515

Humidity – 68%

Sea depth – 3,200m

Ship speed – 17kn before the stoppage, 19kn after

that's a lot of 25s

Today is the last day for a while that we will be able to sit at the pool. We have port days and then will be off the boat for a few days on a safari. It was a nice day for the pool. We got primo spots where the shade was only growing. That was until the boat had to be turned off! There was some kind of electrical problem. After about 2 hours we were on the go again. The ever-dreaded bing-bang-bong came through all areas of the ship. This is NEVER a good sign. We heard those sounds plenty during covid. We are 2 hrs behind, so we’ll have to see how that affects tomorrow.

When the engines were turned off, we were just bobbing in the ocean, turning
this way and that…we were soon out of the shade. We found towels for protection and once we were on our way again the shade returned. At one point we sailed through a short rain shower, I always love these.

cushion wrangling

Later in the day we received an update – we are now only an hour behind and our tour that was supposed to be at 1:15 has been moved to 1:20.

Other than the electrical issue, the most excitement for the morning was watching 3 staff try to wrangle a cushion from a pool lounger from the pool. It was quite windy on the pool deck again this morning and the cushion blew into the pool. It was quite the effort trying to get that out while the wind continued to blow, the pool sloshed, and the staff tried not
to get wet.

We got the Namibia visa sorted, now hopefully, we actually get there and this effort and $$ wasn’t useless – there’s always a chance weather, political issues, mechanical issues cause us to miss ports.

Kathie – there are 14 others on board with over 400 nights sailed, there is one couple with 800 nights!!

Stacey – glad you are caught up!!