Day 51: (Captain) Cook's Tour Today, on impulse, I took a three-hour cruise to see the monument to Captain Cook at Ship Cove. Cook anchored there for nearly six months, careening his ship and revictualling. The cruise, conducted by Beachcomber Cruises, went in a fairly small catamaran, the Tiri-Cat. As Mel had assured me, I had no trouble boarding her, but her motor vibrated enough to hurt my shoulder, though fortunately not on a troublesome frequency. As always, most passengers preferred to sit upstairs, but I stayed downstairs on the rear deck. There was padded bench seating there, on top of stowage bins, and it was both comfortable and, for the first two-thirds of the trip, shady. Mel ran me in to the dock at Picton. From there, we sailed for an hour to reach Ship
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