Fiftieth Sea Day

We departed Cape Town around 11 PM last night.

We are unsure about the changes that our delayed departure from Cape Town will have on the rest of our itinerary. The majority of guests on the ship are not pleased with the current itinerary. Many people had independent overland trips scheduled out of Richards Bay. Since we were not able to reach Richards Bay or Durban, these guests lost thousands of dollars in nonrefundable trip costs. Now it looks like we will not be able to make it to Luderitz either. We were looking forward to visiting Luderitz as we were not able to visit it during our 2019 voyage.

To add insult to injury, at noon the Captain gave the navigational update. In this update, he confirmed that we would not be able to visit Luderitz. In addition, he said that we would not be able to make it to Walvis Bay, Namibia until tomorrow at 3 PM.

We met Dale and Jenni for lunch in the World Cafe. Jenni, being the eternal optimist, thinks that we will still be able to go on the excursion in Walvis Bay. Dale was surprised that I was pessimistic. I do not think that we will be able to complete our excursion. We are scheduled on the excursion "Dunes Meet Atlantic Ocean". We loved this excursion during the 2019 cruise and were looking forward to it. Unfortunately, it is a 4 hour excursion. If we arrive at 3 PM, the ship will have to clear customs before we can proceed to join our bus for the excursion. This excursion has a long drive before arriving at the dunes. I just do not think we will have time.

The grumblings among guests are getting louder.

Stay tuned to see if we have time for our excursion tomorrow.

I spent the afternoon working on the blog.

We went to the "Port Talk" at 4:30 PM. It was not a usual port talk. Instead, we were told that the scheduled excursions would not proceed due to our shortened time in port. Instead, we would have go through immigration around 3 PM and there would be one excursion to the national park where we would hear local music.

We had dinner with Ron and Carol tonight. The evening passes quickly and we ended up being one of the last parties leaving the Restaurant.

Ron and Carol play Hand and Foot. Since it looks like we will have an abundance of sea days, we are planning on playing to pass the time.Read more