Awake to fairly choppy seas and Bert feeling a very ancient mariner.Apparently he is also looking the worse for wear but it is a bit difficult to gauge from the top half of a rather green face peering out from under the bed clothes!
He recovers enough for all of us to catch a very entertaining show put on by some of the crew members. Variable quality but a gutsy effort by all concerned.
11.30-Visit to the bridge following an invitation from Andrew Harris, the ship's Hotel Director, whom I had met the day before on the stairs. He is an absolute fitness fanatic and obviously saw in me a kindred spirit and another finely tuned athlete.
Quiet afternoon as we travel the 530 miles between Ketchikan and Vancouver.
Bert feeling much better and back on the desserts for lunch.
Late afternoon and early evening spent looking for Orcas, ( all to no avail) but we do encounter at fairly close quarters a huge pod of white-sided dolphins attracted to our ship.
Finally enter the famed Inside Passage which lives up to all of the advance publicity and more.
Dinner in Waterfall Bistro as good as ever and the day finishes with a quick and somewhat farcical game of table tennis.( vaguely reminiscent of Doug Walters being asked to find the snooker table on board the ship on his debut trip to the UK)
Late phone call to Lyn and Bert from their son Dean to let them know that he has broken his collar bone in a motorbike accident. Boys will be boys!
The Obese Ferret
PS More to come when I have adjusted to becoming a landlubber again.
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