Holy rollercoaster!!! Fasten your seatbelt. The Tasman Sea is one nasty body of water. You needed a seatbelt for the toilet.
We are fortunate that our “early to leave port” Captain is going to get us off this ride and into port (Hobart, Tasmania) tonight instead of tomorrow morning. Yipppeee! I have had a hard time sleeping (and others I have talked to as well) as the past two nights have been rather bumpy and lumpy in a beam sea. We have had periods of relative calm in the morning hours, but the winds pick up in the afternoon giving us the unwelcome ride. I didn’t have to play bridge today so I thought I would catch up on my beauty sleep with a little nap. Everything jiggled and wiggled – boat, bed and belly. We will sleep in peace tonight.
I must say that the crossing wasn’t all that bad; the last time we crossed it was terrible, and in the middle of the night our ship had a fire and all power was cut off. There was no propulsion, so there we were, dead in the water bobbing around like a cork. There was nothing to do, so we went back to bed.
Milford Sound
Two days ago, we left Dunedin and sailed around the bottom of New Zealand toward Fjordland, the area on the west coast dotted with many fjords. I originally didn’t post about it because, well, it was rather ho hum by Northwest standards. It you have never seen a fjord, it was nice; but we have been to Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia, and at the headlands is magnificent Chatterbox Falls.
The Captain placed the bow right into the waterfall at the head of Milford Sound and that was the most exciting part of the trip. Milford Sound is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in recognition of its “superlative natural phenomena and outstanding example of the earth’s evolutionary history.”
We are fortunate that our “early to leave port” Captain is going to get us off this ride and into port (Hobart, Tasmania) tonight instead of tomorrow morning. Yipppeee! I have had a hard time sleeping (and others I have talked to as well) as the past two nights have been rather bumpy and lumpy in a beam sea. We have had periods of relative calm in the morning hours, but the winds pick up in the afternoon giving us the unwelcome ride. I didn’t have to play bridge today so I thought I would catch up on my beauty sleep with a little nap. Everything jiggled and wiggled – boat, bed and belly. We will sleep in peace tonight.
I must say that the crossing wasn’t all that bad; the last time we crossed it was terrible, and in the middle of the night our ship had a fire and all power was cut off. There was no propulsion, so there we were, dead in the water bobbing around like a cork. There was nothing to do, so we went back to bed.
Milford Sound
Two days ago, we left Dunedin and sailed around the bottom of New Zealand toward Fjordland, the area on the west coast dotted with many fjords. I originally didn’t post about it because, well, it was rather ho hum by Northwest standards. It you have never seen a fjord, it was nice; but we have been to Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia, and at the headlands is magnificent Chatterbox Falls.
The Captain placed the bow right into the waterfall at the head of Milford Sound and that was the most exciting part of the trip. Milford Sound is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in recognition of its “superlative natural phenomena and outstanding example of the earth’s evolutionary history.”
You really did not expect to have calm seas for the whole cruise???
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