Pitcairn Island

We are approaching Pitcairn Island. Sega Rose is already anchored… it seems we will be following her around the world. She is the old Vista Fjord and will soon be retired; scrapped? I hope she will be used somewhere as the old liner-type ships are so beautiful. The day is beautiful with a clear blue sky and almost calm seas. We don’t go ashore here (damn), but I will add a pin to my map anyway. We will be at anchor for several hours and the locals will come onboard to sell handcrafts and a local speaker will do a presentation on the island.

Yesterday was a very laid back day and I decided to go to the dining room for lunch - wrong decision! The buffet was seafood and had crab legs and lobster claws… Oh well, we have 88 days left and I imagine we will have a chance again. Last night we took John and Mary Maxtone Graham to the Sterling Steakhouse for dinner and had a wonderful dinner and a great time. He is such a character… He wore a beautiful Chinese jacket as his jacket for the tux and uses a small magnifying glass on a gold chain instead of reading glasses.

We just had to take a quick break from writing this as they rang the chimes and announced that the locals were approaching the ship in their long boats on the starboard side… earlier they had said they would approach from Port side so we were ready on the balcony. By the time we made it to an outside deck, all the railings were packed. Jim got a pretty good shot from deck 9, but I didn’t get anything good from deck 5. The boats we saw were not the “native-type” long boats we had been expecting, so it’s not a big disappointment.

Some additional tidbits: we won trivia again yesterday with a team of 5. We have now traveled 5900 miles! We are doing remarkably well in the regular size balcony cabin. The last few nights it has been nice enough for Jim to sit out on the balcony to read after I want to go to bed… even when he comes in, he uses his book light and I’ve been able to sleep!