Day 72

Day 72 – St Thomas to Aruba – Thursday 26/7/12

Weather – Sunny 28C – 28C (felt a lot hotter than that !!!)

Sunrise – 6.06am

Sunset – 7.03pm

Time difference - minus 14 hours ex Sydney

After departing St Thomas at 6pm last night, we set a south-westerly heading through the Caribbean Sea, and we maintained this course throughout the day passing over the Venezuelan Basin. Sun Princess was affected by the Caribbean Current, which is a warm water current that flows into the Caribbean Sea from the east along the coast of South America.

The current results from the flow of the Atlantic South Equatorial Counter Current as it flows north along the coast of Brazil. As the current turns north through the Yucatan Channel, it is renamed the Yucatan Current.

Rest day at sea today, in readiness for another port call tomorrow in Aruba. We spent the day hibernating today. This cruise has has been such a continuous social event thanks to the many friends we have made, and people we have met through CC, and there has not yet been a day where we have just spent time by ourselves during the day, so we decided today was it, therefore this will be the briefest of reports.

After dinner show by Kimika, a musical comedy, with impressions, and instrumentals, was an entertaining show.

That is all :)