Exciting Day!

This was possibly one of the most exciting days at sea, but you’ll have to wait for that one until I talk about yesterday.

 

Yesterday the seas were rough again, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as the last rough day.  We got to spend a little bit of time outside before it got too bad, but mostly it was just grose.  Classes were interesting though.  I spent most of the night studying and reading, trying once again to catch up.  I am now done catching up, but there is so much reading! 

 

So, for today.  The most exciting thing happened since two days ago when we saw a boat off in the distance!  At dinner tonight someone yelled that there were dolphins outside, so everyone jumped up and ran outside to watch.  It was so beautiful.  I did get a picture of one of them.  It was funny having everyone leave the dining room to run outside to watch.  The deck was full of people.  There was also a really cool looking ship off in the distance which looked like a huge old maritime trade ship.  I doubt that it was, but it was really cool.  I got a picture of that too, so I will share them when I get back.  On my way past the library I looked out the window and spotted LAND!  Turns out that the captain had changed our route so that we would be going between two islands.  This was the captain’s notes from today for those of you who have a map in front of you and you can check to see what islands they are:

At noon today the Explorer’s position was…

 

Latitude: 40 degrees, 12 minutes North

Longitude: 033 degrees, 56 minutes West        

Distance Made Good:     1399 Nautical miles

(Since Halifax)

Distance Made Good: 345 Nautical miles

(Since Noon)

Distance to go to the next Port:   1332 Nautical miles 

(Cadiz)                                           

Average Speed:  15 Knots

 

Currently a bunch of us are taking a break tonight from studying and watching Cars (which is today’s movie) and talking about what independent trips we are going to do.  I’ll let you know sometime what we are planning on.  I should go to bed now because we have to move the clock forward again tonight which means it is now 12 am.  Good night.  I hope to post more at some point in the future.  Enjoy!