I thought we would NEVER get here! I didn’t sleep well and hadn’t been feeling well, so I got up not long after 7am and went up to brekkie. Checked my GPSr; still 57 kilometres from Easter Island. Dad and…
Category: Travel
Day 16: Last Day at Sea en route to Easter Island
Another day at sea. Highlight of today was probably the lecture by Tom Christian. A few biographical notes: Thomas Coleman Christian was born on Pitcairn Island on 1 November 1935. Tome went to school on Pitcairn age 6 to 16…
Day 15: First Day at Sea en route to Easter Island
After the excitement of Pitcairn Island one day and a total eclipse the next, we had a day spent at sea. There were several post-eclipse lectures as one as one by a doctor from the Mayo Clinic. Dress for dinner…
Day 14: South Pacific Total Solar Eclipse
I have some photos somewhere around here!!! The day the eclipse geeks have been waiting for! First Contact: 10.22am Second Contact: 11.47am Third Contact: 11.48am Fourth Contact: 1.19pm
Day 13: Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn Island today! After the information sheet we had received the evening before detailing the dangers of going ashore in the Pitcairners’ longboat, from signing your life away before descending the ship on a rope ladder to being bounced about…
Day 12: at sea again
Seems today was my day to sleep in while TS left for brekkie! One minute I look at my clock and it’s 7am and TS is just across the room; the next minute it’s 8am and she’s gone. 🙂
Day 11: 1st full day at sea
Our first full day at sea.
Day 10: Mo’orea & 1st day aboard the MV Discovery
We woke and went up to breakfast at 7am; they called the first tender (ours) at 7.30 while be were still eating. We went down at 8 and got a tender then. We were given, of course, tiare Tahiti as…
Day 9: Goodbye Pape’ete, Hello MV Discovery
Our last morning Chez Myrna. We breakfasted, packed, then moved our luggage into the common area. TS, Dad and I went for a walk down our street in the opposite direction to town, however TS was feeling ill so turned…
Day 8: Bloody hot and sunny
I woke up early again. Before 7am. It hadn’t been an eventless night: I had fallen out of bed during the night somehow and, now this is the tricky bit, landed on the floor with my bed on top of…