Back at Sea

Wednesday

We’re back at sea en route to Halifax, Nova Scotia where we will arrive on Friday morning. It’s interesting that Viking picked Charleston and Norfolk as the two ports in the USA to visit, bypassing New York, Boston, Portland, Bangor, et. al. Good for us though as we got our first visits ever to Charleston and Norfolk, and we very much enjoyed both. After Elaine moved to Boston back in 1983, Nova Scotia was the first vacation destination for us a couple. We drove to Portland and took the overnight ferry from there to Halifax and spent a 10 days driving around the island. We’ve been back to Halifax at least twice (maybe three times) on trans-Atlantic cruises on Oceania and Princess. But anyway, we’ll be at sea today and tomorrow.

We attended two presentations today. The first was about bird watching and reporting your finds to an app called eBird. Birders we are not, but it was interesting nonetheless. The second was a film called “Secrets of the Civil War” from the National Geographic Society. Remember learning about the Monitor and the Merrimac.in school? The Monitor was featured in this presentation. The basis of the films, one of a series, is about technology that lets one drain the oceans to see the state of the wrecks and provide theories about exactly what happened. The land battles of the American Civil War are well known, but it’s the war on the seas that shaped the outcome of the war. Maritime archaeologists and historians go in search of Civil War secrets, hidden deep underwater. Scientific data combines with computer graphics to drain the oceans to investigate the lost wrecks of the war. You can see the same series on Disney+, Hulu, and, I think, uTube. It’s very interesting. (On uTube here.)

Lunch was in the World Cafe. I had Chinese pepper steaks while Elaine had delicious calamari fritters. We both had beer.

Dinner tonight was in the Restaurant.

Random Pictures:

I found the picture of the Pig served in the World Cafe buffet. It was on my phone.

Better pictures of the sunset the other night. They were also on my phone.

Random shots of artwork around the ship: The first two are in our cabin.

Random shots from dinner last night:

Back tomorrow for another sea day. Cheers!