Wednesday, April, 4, 2012

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Wednesday April 4, 2011 Aboard the Star Princess At Sea N32°11.4622 W117°42.0096

Gerri turned the Wake Show on at 8:30. This broadcast isn't as funny as the one aboard the Sea Princes, informational but not funny.

The ride smoothed out during the night. This morning there were long swells and white caps but the ride was smooth.

Gerri's camera was sent back to Canon last week to repair a scratch on the lens. I brought my Nikon, but found I didn't have a mini USB cord to connect to a computer. The Nikon is an older on and uses a Compact Flash card. Neither of our computers has a slot for CF cards.

By 10 there was land visible from our stateroom. At 1050 we met a container ship headed roughly NE, we were 450 miles from Catalina.

We were at anchor off Avalon by 1:30. The sun was out and very little breeze, so it was quite comfortable. Pictures from the ship were hard because of the sun being over the island in our face.

Since we weren't going on any tours we ate lunch on board. We went up to the Skywalk lounge to se the

We went ashore and split up. I went caching and Gerri and Neva went downtown shopping. I found two caches. I tried another but was five feet away on the wrong side of a fence with the gate of the business closed.

If anyone remembers my blogs from Great Falls, MT., you may remember our hunt for painted buffalos. Well, two must have escaped and made their way to Santa Catalina, CA.

It was getting dark by the time we left Avalon, but the water front wasn't lit up enough for a good pictures, and we weren't south of the island in time to see the sunset.

After dinner we went to the Vista lounge and saw George Casey, an Irish comedian that we also saw on our last cruise.

Tonight we set the clocks forward for Mexican time. Gerri went to sleep right away. Neva and I read for awhile before lights were ou