Day 76

Day 76 – Panama Canal to Puntarenas – Monday 30/7/12

Weather – Mainly cloudy. 26C – 28C

Sunrise – 6.19am

Sunset – 6.52pm

Time difference - minus 15 hours ex Sydney

After exiting the Panama Canal, Sun Princess set a northerly heading towards Puntarenas, Costa Rica. We are now in the Pacific Ocean – home pond :)

Todays geography lesson for the grand-kids – The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the earth's Oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north, to Antarctica in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east. At 165 million square kilometres in area, this is the largest division of the world ocean and, in turn, the hydrosphere covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about one third of it's total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth's land area combined. Tell Mum that over the dinner table tonight and you are sure to get an extra scoop of ice cream :)

Quiet day at sea for us today. Not much to report. We did our usual morning stuff, exercise walk (me), Zumba (Donna) Trivia ( we're back). Donna had a movie arvo, and I had a reading on Promenade deck arvo.

Formal night yet again tonight, and there is another in 4 nights time, so we passed tonight and had a pizza night with friends Bob and Wendy. This also enabled us to go to the earlier show tonight, which was a split show with two entertainers who have performed a few nights ago. We had not seen either of their earlier shows, but both were highly recommended, and were quite good.

Les – Sorry, but I dont think we have met your friends. We are actually still on the lookout for a lady who got on in Sydney at the start of the cruise :)