Sailing towards Raiatea Monday April 18, 2016

Forecast partly cloudy, NOT, it is raining and we haven't seen the sun in days. Not even for a little bit. The seas are rough we have winds across the bow of 48 knots. 

They say it is 83 F, but not sure about that one. 

Not sure you can read this, but this is on the screen of our TV 

Here is out the door.

Any way, we are suppose to dock early, around 9 PM, spend tommrow all day in port, sure hope it clears up, as no tan yet. 

Our on location guide Keinoa is giving a talk on French Polynesia at two, so we will do that. 

Last night we saw a great show, Greg Andrew, doing Elton John, he looks like Elton and plays the piano as good as Elton, he was amazing. 

Then the 11 pm show was the Philippino crew show, it too was wonderful. It made for a very late night, and this morning we are not moving fast,with the ship rocking and rolling, we have to be careful any way.  So we had breakfast in the room, room service, has been great, very fast and VERY well done. 

By for now. 

 

Welcome to Avatiu, Rarotonga April 17, 2016

We not really a welcome as once again, we cannot go ashore. The wind is at 30 KTS across the bow, and they tried to get us off, by putting the tenders in the water, but just too much wind and the swells are just too big. Then on top of that they had a medical evacuation, so they had toget that person off to be air evaceted home to Australia, sad. 

So we are to do scenic cruising around the island to take pictures. I will post them here. 

So now we are on our way to Raiatea we are now suppose to spend the night, arriving about nine tonight. This is a docking port, not a tender. We have not been off the ship, since we left Kona, a week ago!