HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
Three tv maps showing our position/location today in Vanuatu. This area of the world was home to bloody fighting during WWII. It is a partly sunny day and a very hot 88 degrees.
Vanuatu Background Info:
Vanuatu
is a South Pacific Ocean nation made up of roughly 80 islands that stretch or
1000 miles. The population of these islands
is nearly a quarter million. They gained
their independence in 1980 for a joint French & United Kingdom rule and is
now a member of the United Nations.
There are several active volcanoes on the islands and earthquakes do
occur frequently. The four mainstays of
the economy are agriculture, tourism, offshore financial services, and raising
cattle. Exports include copra, kava,
beef, cocoa, and timber.
Luganville Background Info:
Luganville is the second largest city in the Vanuatu islands after the capital,
Port Vila, where we will be tomorrow. It
is on the island of Espiritu Santo with a population of 18,000. It served as a major base of operations for
American troops during WWII. It was the
largest base in the South Pacific with 4 airfields and 5 military
hospitals. As a result of this history,
it attracts tourism along with diving.
Its other industries are the same as I mentioned about Vanuatu.
LAST EVENING
Murphy, sommelier, presenting my red wine in Compass Rose.
I enjoyed this California merlot.
Double order of the black mussels.
Wish we could say we enjoyed this pan seared pork medallions. They were perfectly cooked but not tasty.
Tonight's Christmas tree.
New York cheesecake was not New York cheesecake!!
TODAY
Arriving at our dock
Rear of a lifeboat.
This is outside of deck 6. Lifeboats deck and good place to walk as it is out of the sun and wind. This is photo of the front bottom of a lifeboat. I did 30 minutes on the treadmill and 30 more minutes walking out here.
After my workout I walked in to see what this cruise terminal had. Very hot walk!!
There was basically nothing inside the terminal but I walked out in the field next to it to see what some locals were selling.
This is one seller. She had women's tops. Other places were selling wood carvings, local made simple jewelry, and other tourist items. I did not need anything so right back to the ship.
For lunch in Compass Rose I tried this duck confit spring rolls. I did not care for it however.
I did love this. Pulled pork sliders with fries and cole slaw.
This is one of two small speed boats used for rescue or other purposes by the crew.
This afternoon Rebecca is streaming today's Bold & Beautiful and Young & Restless soap operas.
I am on my laptop and may watch a movie later. At 6pm in the theater there is a Valentines Day Tribute, "All You Need Is Love". What it is seems to be a secret but have several crew members say we should go. We plan to.
Dinner will be in Compass Rose. Last night we asked Chef John for veal piccata for tonight. At lunch Jason, CR maitre'd, stopped by the table to say they the veal piccata is to be on tomorrow's menu so the chef wondered if we would like to request something else for tonight. We opted to change our request to some fried chicken thighs with mashed potatoes.
Tonight's CR menu
Tonight's show in the theater at 9:30 will feature Jennifer Gray, a singer from Australia. We will definitely be attending her show.
We shall be sailing again at 6:30 this evening for our next stop tomorrow at Port Vila on the Vanuatu island of Efate.
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