Day 14 Tuesday April 2nd At Sea



Our cabin attendants towel sculpture

And so we had another full day on board when we were expecting to leave the boat at St Mary’s.  We woke up as we were leaving Cobh harbour to make our way round Lands End to finish at Poole tomorrow morning.  When we got into open water it was

the seas were choppy

 obvious why it would be unsafe to operate tenders today as there was quite a swell.  We had a relaxing day going to a lecture on jet engines, listening to a session of some familiar songs being sung, eating and talking.  In the late afternoon we were tracking the boat’s position and reckoned we were the nearest we would get to home when it got to 6pm. 



Seven Stones lightship

We went up onto the deck 

the islands on the horizon

when we could see the Seven Stones lightship from our cabin window (we were on the starboard side).  From the deck we could see Land’s End clearly as well as the lightship and the outline of 

Round Island

the islands on the horizon.  I managed to zoom onto Round Island with the camera.  There was also a gannet swooping round the boat.  At one stage it was obvious there was a heavy shower on the islands but 

Gannet flying round Astoria

we remained dry.

 

We had some tea and went back to the cabin to start packing and do some blogging.  We had been told our cases had to be outside the cabin by midnight. Christine packed one case whilst the other had to be left until after we returned from dinner and this evening’s show.  We changed for dinner and spent an enjoyable meal with our new found friends on table 68.  Eventually we said our farewells in case we did not meet in the morning and said goodbye to the waiting staff who had served us so well.  We then transferred to the theatre to watch the final show entitled “End of the Pier”.  The small show team as usual did ever so well entertaining us with a well thought out progamme of familiar songs.  It was 2315 by the conclusion and so we had to pack our final stuff for the second case in rather a hurry and it wasn’t without incident.  Everything else would be packed in our rucksack and daybag.  We had quite a late night but also prepared for tomorrow as we had to vacate the cabin by 0730 the next morning!