I took a walk around the boat anchored in the beautiful Keku Islands area. The
rain is on and off and surprisingly there is a weak cell phone signal. Libbie
got a number of text messages. All is well in Providence according to Mary and
Joe texted back that Christa and "sister" are still doing well. No baby yet.
Breakfast was with a couple from Asheville and a couple from Flagstaff. I had
the open face egg and tomato on an English Muffin with potatoes and bacon.
Earlier at 6:30 AM I had coffee and an Apricot bread in the lounge while I
caught up on my blog. I enjoy the lithesome tall figure of Samantha, the blonde
bartender. She was attending to the continental breakfast buffet set up in the
lounge.
I went out on the shore walk with Sarah. She gave the talk last night with the
subject being the critters in the tide pools. She was great at finding all the
little guys on the shore that we talked about last night. We had a couple of
kids that were really curious and found lot of the critters first. I found
that Sarah was a teacher and this was her break time. She has been with
Uncruise one year. She is really good. We came back in a pouring rain. The
lunxh was perfect. It was a hot bowl of vegetable and kale soup. We liked the
food so well that we ended up buying the Uncruise cookbook from the ships store.
We went out with the skiff tour at 2:15 instead of the kayak tour. We had
Lindsey, a very capable and pretty blonde. It's amazing how many beautiful
young adventurous woman there are on these boats. We had a nice excursion but
only saw some eagles and a seal plus a few other birds. On the way back we went
into a driving wind and got unbelievably soaked. Salty water was spraying over
the boat and a times we got hit by large waves that totally soaked us. By the
time we reached the Endeavour we were saturated with dripping salt water and
cold. We went to the lounge for hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps. Earlier
in the day I had an Alaskan Coffee. This time i ordered a gin martini from
Samantha followed by a couple of glasses of Cabernet. I had 2 more glasses of
Cabernet with dinner. This evening we had Alaskan Dungeness crab. They brought
us out some extra crab which was nice of them. It turned into a social meal.
We spent much more time at the table than normal cracking crab claws. For
dessert we had an orange pound cake with raspberry ad cream sauce. The talk
tonight was by Lindsey and was about Salmon. I fell asleep part way through the
talk. The boat is going through some rough seas as I write this after dinner.
They warned us about this saying that we were gong with the wind which was
strong but contributing to swells on the water. The boat is pitching to and
fro but it isn't anything too bad.