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#cruise

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kuovadis

The first day of our voyage was spent at sea.We were given parkas and boots, and our clothes were decontaminated. Briefings covered zodiac operations and an overview of our voyage. In the evening, I went to the bridge to look out at the sea before us, and had the good fortune to meet the officer on watch for the night.

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Kuo VadisA voyage to the Ross Sea, Antarctica part 2: Our first day at sea — Kuo Vadis
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Mark and Marie
Our third cruise commenced in 2016, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of our first date. This was our first time heading south of the equator and we flew down to join the ship, Star Princess, in Buenos Aires. We would spend an entire day docked in Argentina's capital which meant we could go off on a full day's excursion before the cruise properly began.

This is the view from Buenos Aires on the aft of the ship. The raised structure on the right is the nightclub, accessed via a travelator, and it's where we spent every evening into the early hours.

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We're on the top deck of a cruise ship, towards its aft and overlooking some of the deck below which has a hot tub to the right and a large chess board with pieces on it to the left. Three rows of loungers in a small space are behind the chess board. The aft structure of this ship has a raised section mounted on thick supports. We can see one support on the corner, almost directly ahead of us and the angled white section it supports has a row of vertical, blue-tinted windows along its edge facing us, reflecting the scenery behind us. It's a very bright and sunny day, feeing warm here, and the ship is docked at a port we can see off to the left. A large area of bright green lawn meets more industrial buildings with pipes and concrete, scaffolding-like arrangements, and a tall chimney stack painted in white and red hoops like a lighthouse. In the far distance the city sprawls with jagged peaks of skyscrapers reaching towards the patchy blue sky and puffy white clouds.
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Mark H

Processing photos from our recent cruise.

This is the Salmon Eye in Hardangerfjord, Norway. It's both a floating art installation and a Michelin-starred restaurant with the sort of cost for a meal you'd expect from a Michelin-starred restaurant in Norway.

A bright, clear day with a pale blue sky over and behind mountains in the distance, themselves pale with haze. The mountains are brightly lit except on the far left where they fold back away from the direct sunshine. The peaks along the ridge further back on the right are topped with snow. In front of the mountainous background there is low, sloping green land dotted with groves of trees and isolated buildings. This reaches to a flat stretch of deep blue water on which we're located some distance from land. Midway between our high viewpoint and the nearest shore there is an object on the water, appearing somewhat like a crashed flying saucer. It is a bulbous, metallic, flattened sphere, elongated a little and angled down to look like a rugby ball skipping into the water. The object's scale is hard to determine but easily a couple of dozen metres across at least.
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

Have you ever seen pins on a cruise ship? For as long as I remember, the huge cruise ships in the Nordic area used to have really good arcades onboard. Always the latest vids and pins and naturally a full selection of gambling machines.

A lot of people go, "wait, isn't it impossible to play with the ship rocking and stuff?" and the answer is no, the ships are so big and well stabilised the sea is really not an issue, but the games were still bolted onto the deck!

But with often rowdy audience, the games had some noticeable mods done to them. The coin door had a beefy steel plate with more reinforcements inside.

They also had a credit board they used on simpler games to set the game price. I guess they just had those in every game.

The playfield usually plastic upper trim was now stainless steel and the bottom speaker had a protector on it too.

They had a keyed power switch so they could be turned off if the ship docked somewhere the operator couldn't legally do business in.

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Mark H

Currently sat on the ship back at Tilbury as we wait for clearance to leave, find our cases, load them up in the car, and start the 2-hour drive back home. It's been a great cruise on an old, small ship with tons of personality and some gorgeous decor in the lounges.

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Mark H

Final port on this cruise, Aberdeen today. We took a trip to Crathes Castle & Gardens and it was very enjoyable with lovely weather to go with it. We'd planned to spend some time in Aberdeen afterwards but I've aggravated my strained calf muscle again so we've been sensible and got back on the ship. A shame, because Aberdeen looked very interesting architecturally. Sea day tomorrow before the cruise concludes Sunday morning.

It's a bright, sunny day and we're in formal gardens. We're standing on a narrow path of irregular grey paving stones that leads between two beds of white flowers around calf-height to a circular paved section bordered by dense bushes given some topiary treatment to smooth their curved sides and flatten their tops. In the centre of this space is a tree with wide trunk and thick branches supporting more topiary. The densely-packed leaves are cut to form a hemisphere of greenery that contrasts with the bright blue sky.
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Mark H

We're in Aberdeen today, the last port before returning home on Sunday. A castle visit will be occurring a little later.

We didn't catch any aurora from our land-based opportunities but in the early hours of the morning a couple of nights ago, staggering back to bed after the nightclub, from our balcony we got a very good show at sea with colours visible to the naked eye.

Taken at night from a ship, looking across the mostly black water with a beam of reflected light from a low crescent moon on the right. Around the glow of the moon there is a soft, green blanket of light in a wide ribbon over the moon and more detailed swirls to the moon's left. A few dots of stars are in the sky but they're stretched slightly because it's a slow photo on a moving vessel.
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Mark H

In Lofoten today, and it's been a damp one. We've also had to shorten the stay because wind conditions are forecast to make tendering to and from the ship too dangerous later so we've only had a short time ashore. We got the free bus from the port to Leknes where there's very little to do or see so we just walked back to the port by a more scenic route. If we'd been able to see it.

A cold, damp scene. A low rise of grey boulders topped with pale yellow grass in patches sits in front of a stretch of water. We can only see a little of the flat, cold water behind the rocky foreground which slopes up gently to the left. A couple of tall, leafless bushes stick up as black skeletal silhouettes against the scenery beyond the water. Mountains with snowy tops disappear into the low cloud that soaks the landscape.
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Mark H

Good morning from Alta. A brighter day than yesterday. Sail away is at midday. Last night we spent a few hours by the water at Isnestoften in hope of seeing the Northern Lights. The sky was clear to start with but clouded over, although it's likely that made no difference. We still enjoyed the experience of sitting on furs on deep snow in the quiet darkness.

Sea day tomorrow, then Lofoten.

We're looking across flat water to two banks of land coming in from the left and right. They're low with distance, rocky, and speckled with snow. On the left land mass a hill rises as it reaches the rightmost point before the channel that leads away from here. The sky is bright blue with patchy cloud largely to the right, and everything is reflected with light rippling in the water.
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