The seas calmed down soon after I posted last night’s blog and we had a good night’s sleep, though our Apple Watches thought we got under two hours of sleep and were awake from 2am onward!
On days at sea, ships provide lots of games and activities to keep the guests busy; this morning, Diane and I won today’s trivia session. There also was a door-decorating contest; since I have no artistic talent, I used Image Playground on my iPhone to create our entry, inspired by Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images – Wikipedia“. Unsurprisingly, we did not win.
The big event of the day was going under the Confederation Bridge, Canada’s longest bridge (about 8 miles long). There are quite a few curves in the bridge, not for structural reasons but because the alternative was an 8-mile-long straightaway and probable highway hypnosis!
We could see the bridge for about an hour before we reached it; there were a lot of buoys for lobster traps along our path, and I happened to see a fishing boat loaded with traps (I don’t know if they were full or ready to be deployed) while I was on deck.
Of course there were seabirds flying around us.
Ships going under the bridge are required to have a local pilot; ours arrived on a spiffy red boat about 25 minutes before we reached the bridge.
It was nice to be outside in the sun and fairly mild temperatures. Diane and I took a few laps around the top deck (she was much more virtuous than I was – I got bored!).
I was surprised to see channel markers on the bridge supports, but between them and the pilot, we made it safely through. :-)
After that, we went back in to hear our guest speaker’s talk “Konnichiwa, Anne!” about Anne of Green Gables and its influence in Japan.
We docked in Charlottetown, PEI during dinner. A local singer/songwriter, Mike Pendergast, came aboard as our after-dinner entertainment and he was wonderful – lots of songs about PEI and its people. He’s returning tomorrow evening, and I hope he brings some CDs with him!