Because We Can

  Travel Day 104 - April 16, 2024 - 7,923 Steps At end of today's images are the videos from the 15th showing the Zulu celebration,  the harbor pilot being literally picked up plus  crocodiles and a tortoise. The pastry chefs were Kim's interview subjects. One take away, when baking you always follow the recipe exactly including the baking temperature and time. They want the 1000 cookies they bake every night to all be the same for example.  Can you guess our muster station number? Big smiles all around since it was just a drill. We were told we were the first Holland America Line ship to actually hold a full muster drill in a number of years .years with all passengers required report to their muster station. Nothing like a little video to show what the muster drill was all about and why it needs be done. We passed by one of the galley's on the way to our station. Back in the room we had to view a safety video before the TV would once again work normally. Another day, anoth

  Travel Day 103 - April 15, 2024 - 8,501 Steps This is just a quick post of what we did today. Tomorrow I hope to post some of the 40 plus videos we took today of all that we experienced as well as a few more photos to complete the day's happenings. Our first view of Durban did not leave a good feeling. South Africa is a mere shell of what it once was. Market area in Durban. Our destination for today's excursion. Zulu dancers. Zulu drummeres. It was a great performace that told the story of two young people who fell in love and were married through song and dance. Then there were the crocodiles. Luckily they were all behind walls and fences. Oh, but Crocy, what big teeth you have. He was called Ramses. 101 years old, and weighing somewhere between 500 and 650 kilo's with a length of over 5 meters there was no doubt he was a monster crocodile. A face only a mother could love? Then there were the snakes. A Black Mamba, a snake you really never want to meet. The economy and t

  Travel Day 102 - April 14, 2024 - 4,686 Steps Sea conditions first thing this morning The weather was different this morning. This video shows the entire front. Henk and his wife were once again the guests at Coffee with Kimberley. They are hilarious. Slow speed cruising today. The view of the ship pitching from our verandah. A three cherry Manhattan i the Crow's Nest for happy hour. I first read it when I was 13. It still every bit as interesting all these years later.