Day 69

Day 69 – New York to St Thomas – Monday 23/7/12

Weather – Sunny 23C - 29C

Sunrise – 5.52am

Sunset – 7.27pm

Time difference - minus 14 hours ex Sydney

Today Sun Princess cruised on a south-easterly heading through the North Atlantic. We passed from the American basin to Nares Abyssal Plain, a vast underwater sea bed standing at the foot of the continental rise, at which point we will be 460 miles north of Cuba.

At midnight tonight we passed close to the Antilles Current, which is a warm current that flows to the north west, and passing the island chain which separates the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Antilles Current forms part of the North Equatorial Current that flows across the Atlantic Ocean from the gulf of Guinea.

Sea Day 3 of 4 in our transit from New York to St Thomas, and a relaxing it day it was...again. I did need to pat a visit to my friendly doctor again today, as I had a 'blue' toenail, which indicates bleeding under the toenail, caused by some sort of trauma. I dont recall kicking my toe, or Donna standing on it during dancing, so I can only hazard a guess as to what has caused it.

Given the drama I had with the foot infection 6 weeks ago, I figured I would get the Doc to look at it straight away as I did not want a repeat of last occurrence where a relatively minor blister became quite serous. She bled the toe, by putting a hole through the nail, and put me on a course of anti-biotic as insurance.

Donna started the day with Zumba again, whilst I hit the Promenade deck again, this time a bit longer than yesterday, and a bit faster pace. This was before the visit to the Doc of course. A light breakfast in the buffet and Donna was off with friend Wendy to prepare xmas decorations for our Christmas in July Dinner tomorrow night. I went off to my quiet little hideaway in the Shooting Stars nightclub to start work on my photo culling. The Shooting Stars is deserted during the day, and so makes an ideal sanctuary from the hub bub of the ship.

A light lunch in the Dining Room was nice. If anyone is on a Princess cruise and sees curried herring on the menu as an entrée, try it. I know it sounds questionable, but take my word for it, if you generally like herring, you will just love this.

After lunch Wendy and Donna were back at work on the bon-bons , and I went to the photography section to enter a photo into the competition that is running. This sectors category is People, so I have entered the photo of Donna with the Macaw on her shoulder that was taken in Dubrovnik, which I think I posted on the blog. We will see how that goes. I spent the rest of the afternoon socialising until Donna had returned.

Formal dinner tonight, so on with the glad rags again, these formal nights seem to be coming around a lot quicker. I am missing Eduardo, our dinner waiter who got off in New York. We also lost our Junior waiter, Edgar, who is also excellent, to the other Dining Room.

After dinner show tonight was a production show by the new crop of singers and dancers who got on in New York. Tonights show, Shimmy, we have seen a few times before, and tonights performance was a marked improvement on the bunch that got off in New York.

Last sea day tomorrow, before we get into St Thomas, our first Caribbean stop, so it will be nice to see yet another new port of call...they keep on coming :)