Sunday – March 8, 2009
It is 4PM the day we were to land in Cape Town. Since I used the word ‘were’ you may have guessed that we haven’t quite made port. Our timing was off by ½ hour, as the wind went from dead calm to 60 knots in about 5 minutes, and, as a result, the entire port has been closed since 7 AM. The ships are stacking up like cords of wood in a winter’s woodpile. People who are in Cape Town can’t get to the ship for the next cruise, and people like me who want desperately get off can’t (in fact they are using our rooms tonight). The ship has to be reprovisioned (which hasn’t started yet), and the next trip was scheduled to leave tonight at 10 PM (and that’s not going to happen). The hope is that we will make port sometime in the early morning (after sitting offshore for 24 hours), clear immigration, and are able to catch various planes (mine leaves at 7 PM) to the US and Europe tomorrow night. I hate to think of the consequences should we not make our flights. I will not post this until we know what is happening – it all depends on the wind.
My seasick patches run out tonight around midnight, just adding to the fun. This will make 5 full days on the ship without touching land.
We do get some ‘news’ (if you can call it that) on our cabin TV’s. It’s FOX ‘news’ so I can hardly call it news.
Good news – it is anticipated that we set foot in Africa by 8 AM tomorrow. If the weather cooperates we will go to the top of Table Mtn., go to the botanical gardens, and get to the airport in time to catch the Delta flight to New York City. And I’ll meet my lovely wife there.
Additional pictures will be posted on the blog when I return home.
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