Jun 5
🌋
i knew you by the pins in your hair
your softened waves, your steady stare
i’ll choose your rose garden over madison square
seen from Australia
seen from Australia
seen from Sweden
seen from Kyrgyzstan
seen from Australia
seen from Australia
seen from Australia
seen from Kyrgyzstan
seen from Australia
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from Australia
seen from China
seen from United Kingdom
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from Australia
🌋
i knew you by the pins in your hair
your softened waves, your steady stare
i’ll choose your rose garden over madison square
New chapter Monday 4/21
Don’t you hate it when you wake up at 3am for the update and it’s not up yet 😭
this is ending at like 11:30 isnt it
Today is the last time we'll have to change the time on the clocks. BC is adopting a permanent DST for all of the year. There are some sections of the province that still follow Mountain Time. Most of us though will be part of the new Pacific Time. Washington State, Oregon, and California were supposed to join us in the new time zone but Congress keeps holding it up. BC pretty much said F**k it. We're tired of waiting.
Crossing the International Date Line!
Thursday 20th February 2025 Again - At Sea (Not Pago Pago Either!)
Ever wanted to re-live a day of your life? Well, this is how to do it! Having gone to bed last night (Thursday), we awoke to discover that it was Thursday morning again! During the night, we crossed the International Date Line which passes directly between Western Samoa and American Samoa.
Well actually, we crossed the line yesterday afternoon but that’s the ‘flexible’ nature of things I guess. I Let me explain….
Here is a view of the Earth looking down on the North Pole, the sun illuminating the day-side, Europe and the Mediterranean at the top (upside down) and the Pacific at the bottom.
The Earth revolves clockwise once every 24 hours, so as you go around the globe, the time of day varies by 1 hour for every 15 degrees ie 360 degrees in 24 hours; in the diagram, the UK is at the top in the red box and it’s mid-day while we are at the bottom in the Pacific, 12 hours ahead at midnight on Thursday.
As you can see, while on one side of the Date Line it’s midnight Thursday, it’s still only first thing on Thursday morning just across the Date Line. So as we crossed the Date Line going anti-clockwise, we moved to a point where it was still only early morning on the same day, Thursday. Got it? Of course, if we had gone the other way across the Date Line, we would have lost a day, rather than than gained one!
Strictly speaking, in astronomical terms, the Date Line should be the 180 degree line (the vertical yellow line on the map above) but of course it isn’t as simple as that! Matters are made more complicated by various countries with islands spread across both sides of the 180 degree line who have chosen (usually for convenience) to be in single rather than multiple time zones which is why, for instance, the International Date Line takes a weird route all around Kiribati - pronounced “Kiribass” by the way! Still, I hope this has shed some light on the matter of the International Date Line.
Anyway, back to today – or yesterday, whatever! It was another grey start, with more rain, the decks closed and the ship rattling along at 17 knots.
Sadly, aside from a movie being shown in the Theatre at 10am, there wasn’t much in the daily programme – unless you count the ‘Fireside Chat with Ray Bailey’ (the dreadful ‘destinations speaker’) and ‘Axe-throwing in the Atrium’! No, they’re not real axes; it’s just a variation on ‘chuck a bean-bag’!
So here are a few photos around the ship I don’t think I’ve already posted.
The Atrium – for ‘axe-throwing’ amongst other things! Impressive but running 9 decks high through the ship, it’s a giddying space and the criss-crossing nature of the stairways can leave you feeling you’re in one of those optical illusion drawings with staircases leading nowhere!
The Library, off the atrium; a nice space with even more book-cases than shown here and a wide choice of books to read. With all these days at sea with no landfall, one might have need of it!
Café Connections, another space off the atrium and just outside the upper level of the theatre. 24hr self service tea and coffee plus changing light nibbles throughout the day. Quiet here, first thing in the morning but after 10am, it’s hard to find a seat.
Setting up ‘camp’ after breakfast in the Horizon Lounge with our books etc, it comes to something when the ‘Dancersize with Marta’ class at 9.15am gets new members on Day 11 of a 15 day cruise!
The good news from Captain ‘Stan’ is that we should be leaving the bad weather behind us and arriving at our next destination, Bora Bora, on Saturday 22nd instead of Sunday 23rd. And the good news from our splendid butler Nikkhil is that he has been able to get us a table for dinner in Prime 7 tonight!
Cessna Jet Crash in San Diego Military Housing Kills 2, Injures 8, Ignites 15 Homes
A Cessna 550 Citation II business jet crashed into the Murphy Canyon section of San Diego, a densely populated military housing neighborhood
A Cessna 550 Citation II business jet crashed into the Murphy Canyon section of San Diego, a densely populated military housing neighborhood, at about 3:45 a.m. Pacific Time on 22 May. San Diego police said two people aboard the aircraft were killed and eight others were injured. No serious injuries were reported among residents on the ground.
The impact caused what authorities described as a “direct hit” to multiple houses, igniting roughly 15 homes and several parked vehicles. Fire crews contained the resulting blazes after large columns of smoke drifted over the area, and residents along several blocks were evacuated as a precaution.
Flight-tracking data indicate the jet departed Teterboro, New Jersey, stopped briefly in Wichita, Kansas, and was on approach to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport when it went down about 1.5 miles short of the runway. The aircraft, which can seat eight to ten people, encountered thick fog that reduced visibility to roughly half a mile, according to the National Weather Service. Investigators have not yet determined whether weather was a contributing factor.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have opened a joint inquiry, and California’s Office of Emergency Services is supporting local responders. Governor Gavin Newsom has been briefed, while city officials said displaced families are being assisted with temporary shelter and other resources.
What time zone are you in?
UTC
UTC+1
UTC+2
UTC+5:30 (India)
UTC+8
UTC-3
UTC-5 (US eastern time)
UTC-6 (US central time)
UTC-7 (US mountain time)
UTC-8 (US western time)
Something else
Results