Capturing the Moment

 I though I would do this post a little different. i will copy different messages and emails that I've sent out in order to keep the family updated on all the twists and turns of my corona cruise adventure. At the time of writing I'm one flight away from making it home to Maui, and to Heidi, Catalina, and Fisher! April 16th: Insanity Workout Crew onboard  Well we made it to Tenerife Island, one of the Canary Islands. Lots of atlantic spotted  dolphins were playing around the ship today. Tenerife looks a lot like Hawaii from afar, with a big volcano sticking up out of the water. Also, lots of windmills dotted the island's slope. Even though these islands are part of Spain, they are located off the west coast of Morocco.  April 19th : It's another nice day sitting at anchor off Tenerife. Sometimes we can see the next isl and, Grand Canary. We can always see the other ships at anchor with us. There are three Silversea ships here. Tomorrow is the day when all three s...

  Getting into the 'Life at Sea' Groove Shortly after sunset in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean   It has been almost a week and a half since setting sail from Cape Town. In my last post I wrote about being denied entry into Cape Town, even though I had a ticketed international flight. In fact all of the crew, minus a few from South Africa, had to stay onboard and shove off the dock with the only direction and destination being 'North'.    So now, after ten days, how has the situation developed? Well for the first week everyone had to adjust to a slower paced, more behind the scenes workload since we have no guests onboard. We did get access to a few of the guests areas like the top deck which has been a godsend. Our first known destination was Gibraltar in mid April. That has since changed to Tenerife, Canary Islands on April 15th. We still don't know what kind of reception we will get when we arrive but it is a little closer to our current location so it ...