lI don’t have much to report on Salalah as we decided not to find a car and guide to explore. It was about 97 degrees and 50% humidity… I thought it was a good place to stay in the cool ship. Different people gave different impressions of the port - some said nothing to see except Jobs Tomb which was interesting. Others that hired private cars had a great day seeing the tomb, many beautiful beaches, the city and then a ride up into the mountains overlooking the sea. They said they saw about 100 camels along the roads. Hmmm, I probably missed some good photo ops. We stayed in port until 10:00pm as the Captain had been given the location that the ship should be at at10:00 this morning. In order to maintain a fast speed and be at the right place at the right time… he delayed our departure.
This morning we are entering the Gulf of Aden. (It is 8:00 am as I write this) The Royal Navy has directed us to a certain location where we will apparently be part of a convoy of ships through the gulf. Right now there is nothing to report except that there are crew standing watch on all open decks and the bridge wings. The sonic device is mounted on the wing and we did see (and hear) them test it a couple days ago… although they just did a split second chirp with it - it was really a loud piercing tone.
Tahitian Princess went through this area 6 days ago with similar procedures and my friend emailed me that there was nothing exciting. They rarely even saw any other ships, even those that were supposed to be in the convoy. She said they did see a couple military ships, but they did not have an escort.
I’m sure the events of the last couple days have those in charge watching everything carefully. We are turning the TV to CNN or Fox quite often to get updates.
I’ll add reports if there is anything of interest!
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