Day 23 - February 6, 2007, Tuesday, At Sea Bound for Pago Pago Time: 8:15 am (1:15 pm CST) Latitude: 15 degrees 40.14 minutes S Longitude: 162 degrees 49.94 minutes W Speed: 20 knots average Winds: 13.2 knots Distance traveled from FLL: 8174 nautical miles Weather: 84 degrees / 83% humidity, Cloudy with rain showers Well we are at sea again today and it’s a toss up whether to try and accomplish any school or not. The ship has a full schedule for us today. We have a Ship bridge tour scheduled for today (yeah!), a port talk for Suva, Fiji [View Full Entry]

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Day 22 - February 5, 2007, Monday, At Sea Bound for Pago Pago, American Samoa Time: 6:00 am (11:00 am CST) (another hour back for us!) Latitude: 17 degrees 00.41 minutes S Longitude: 153 degrees 40.51 minutes W Speed: 19.6 knots average Winds: 9.4 knots Distance traveled from FLL: 7639 nautical miles Weather: Partly Cloudy, 82 degrees A day at sea and yet another day in school! We have one more sea day until we reach Pago Pago, American Samoa. The port talk this morning on Pago Pago was very interesting. It seems that there is a great deal of tuna [View Full Entry]

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Day 21 - February 4, 2007, Sunday, Papeete, Tahiti Time: 7:15 am (11:15 am CST) Latitude: 17 degrees 32.17 minutes S Longitude: 149 degrees 34.16 minutes W Speed: Docked Winds: Moderate Distance traveled from FLL: 7398 nautical miles Weather: Partly Cloudy/Sunny, 84 degrees Ok, Papeete, Tahiti was pretty spectacular to wake up to as well! Maybe not quite as spectacular as Bora Bora though. Papeete is definitely a city. The name, Papeete translated means “water from a basket”. Papeete is the capital of French Polynesia, located on the island of Tahiti, and is [View Full Entry]

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Day 20 - February 3, 2007, Saturday, Bora Bora, French Polynesia Time: 7:30 am (11:30 CST) Latitude: 16 degrees 30.46 minutes S Longitude: 151 degrees 45.41 minutes W Speed: At Anchor Seas: 1.5 - 4 feet, slight Winds: Moderate breeze Miles traveled from FLL: 7256 nautical miles Weather: Partly Cloudy/Rainy, 81 degrees Oh, what a beautiful sight Bora Bora was to wake up to this morning! The crystal clears waters and the majestic mountains make Bora Bora and unforgettable island. Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia [View Full Entry]

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Day 18 - February 1, 2007, Thursday, At Sea—Bound for Bora Bora Time: 6:15 am (8:15 CST) Latitude: 23 degrees 29.35 minutes S Longitude: 136 degrees 58.78 minutes W Speed: 19.4 knots average Seas: 1.5 - 4 feet, slight Winds: Moderate breeze Miles traveled from FLL: 6310 nautical miles Weather: Partly Cloudy/rainy, 78 degrees Clocks back another hour last night. Day 19 - February 2, 2007, Friday, At Sea—Bound for Bora Bora Time: 5:47 am (9:47 CST) Latitude: 20 degrees 13.11 minutes S Longitude: 145 degrees 23.90 minutes W Speed: 19.5 knots a [View Full Entry]

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Day 17 - Pitcairn Island Latitude: 25 degrees 3.59 minutes S Longitude: 130 degrees 05.35 minutes W Speed: 0 (At anchor) Seas: Calm Winds: Moderate breeze Miles traveled from FLL: 5,906 nautical miles Weather: Sunny, 78 degrees Our ship’s time changed again last night—back one more hour (PST). We arrived at Pitcairn Island at about 8:00 this morning, where we are anchored out, and where we boarded all 45 local islanders to spend the morning with us on the ship. We are told that there are only 45 inhabitants, from nine families, on this island making it n [View Full Entry]

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Day 16 - Still Bound for Pitcairn Island Latitude: 25 degrees 47.98 minutes S Longitude: 122 degrees 43.81 minutes W Speed: 17.0 knots (average) Seas: Slight, 1.5 - 4 feet Winds: Moderate breeze Miles traveled from FLL: 5,504 nautical miles Weather: Sunny, 75 degrees Our ship’s time changed again last night—back one more hour! We are at sea for the second of five days. “We” are back in school now for the next four days along with some shipboard lectures on Polynesian culture, plant and animal life, and customs. There is way too much to keep u [View Full Entry]

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Day 15 - Bound for Pitcairn Island Latitude: 26 degrees 26.97 minutes S Longitude: 116 degrees 08.91 minutes W Speed: 19.7 knots (average) Seas: Moderate, 4 - 7.5 feet Winds: Moderate breeze Miles traveled from FLL: 5,146 nautical miles Weather: Sunny, 78 degrees Our ship’s time finally changed last night—back one hour! We are now on central time and are at sea for the first of five days. We will only be cruising by Pitcairn Island, not stopping. The distance between Easter Island and Pitcairn Island is 1123 nautical miles. We are now on a course head [View Full Entry]

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We arrived at Easter Island this morning at 7:00 a.m. This is a tender port which means our ship will be anchored out at sea and we will take a tender (small boat- our ship’s lifeboats) to shore. Easter Island, known in the native language as Rapa Nui is an island in the South Pacific belonging to Chile. It is also know as the “belly button” of the Pacific. This island was given the common name “Easter” because it was discovered by the Dutch on Easter Sunday, 1722. Many studies that the island was settled around 300-400 AD; however others believe [View Full Entry]

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Days 10-12, January 24-26, 2007, Friday, At Sea Bound for Easter Island I guess the Captain of the ship has decided that we (passengers) do not need to know where we are!!!! The ship's channel has now disappeared off of our stateroom televisions!!!! After departing Lima, about 4 hours out to sea, we lost the majority of our television reception due to our remote location. We hear that our reception will not return until we reach Australia. Now this! We are beginning to feel VERY REMOVED from life as we knew it. Thanks goodness for the internet! I guess we will [View Full Entry]

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