Wednesday, June 29
We decided to take advantage of the day at sea with a quiet morning as we had a Mariner's Lunch to attend at 11:30am. After a glass of champagne with a 3 course lunch a lie down was required before our next appointment at 2pm. This was interrupted by the Captain announcing there was a pod of orcas near the ship. I raced up on deck and could see about 6-8 of them swimming about and leaping completely out of the water! However as we were steaming along and they were obviously eating a school of fish we were soon out of range to get a photo on the iPad, so it is just embedded in my memory. We didn't see any orcas in Alaska so this was a massive bonus.
After that excitement we enjoyed the rest of the afternoon before preparing for the formal dinner. We met Don & Norma for pre-dinner drinks, and then had the King Crab legs for entree that the Captain picked up from a fishing boat near North Cape, followed by lobster tails - another yummy meal.
The Captain also told us the scenery we would be passing between 4:30-6:30am would be worth getting up for. So we took his advice and
set the alarm for 5:30, and got some more amazing pics of the beautiful
Norwegian scenery.
We decided to take advantage of the day at sea with a quiet morning as we had a Mariner's Lunch to attend at 11:30am. After a glass of champagne with a 3 course lunch a lie down was required before our next appointment at 2pm. This was interrupted by the Captain announcing there was a pod of orcas near the ship. I raced up on deck and could see about 6-8 of them swimming about and leaping completely out of the water! However as we were steaming along and they were obviously eating a school of fish we were soon out of range to get a photo on the iPad, so it is just embedded in my memory. We didn't see any orcas in Alaska so this was a massive bonus.
After that excitement we enjoyed the rest of the afternoon before preparing for the formal dinner. We met Don & Norma for pre-dinner drinks, and then had the King Crab legs for entree that the Captain picked up from a fishing boat near North Cape, followed by lobster tails - another yummy meal.
The Captain also told us the scenery we would be passing between 4:30-6:30am would be worth getting up for. So we took his advice and
set the alarm for 5:30, and got some more amazing pics of the beautiful
Norwegian scenery.
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