It was another lazy day at sea. The water color changed from a greenish blue to a deeper blue as we crossed the Arafura Sea. And the temperature continued to climb although walking around on deck 6 was quite comfortable especially since we are near the equator and the sun is overhead due to our westward course.
The morning lectures were good. Kelly and Melanie presented on the shore excursions on the next part of this segment. Dr. Write spoke on the topic of the Sun. In the afternoon Philip Creaser spoke about mammal fossils and Kelly returned to give location information for the next three ports of call. Again both were quite good. Now I had to pay the price for attending the lectures: I finished walking my 5 miles for today (it's 4 laps on Deck 6 to a mile).
Dinner this evening was in the Canaletto and it was wonderful. We had an ocean view seat and our waiter was the same waiter who typically serves us in the morning and remembered our tea preferences. For a those unaccustomed to the Canaletto, it's one of two specialty extra charge restaurants onboard, and its theme is Italian cuisine. The seafood soup and baby romaine lettuce salad was excellent as was the grilled shrimp and cod.
The evening's entertainment was Louis Finkel, a very accomplished pianist. He was quite good and his closing medley of a salute to New York City was magical. The movie was a documentary about the women's pursuit cycling team in the London Olympics. This team was a definite underdog with a minimal budget competing with Australian and British teams with $40,000,0000 budgets. But they earned the silver medal!
Afterwards we took a short walk on the deck, and it was extremely warm for 11pm as we are approaching the equator.
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