We docked at St. John this morning around 10:00 a.m. The ship was cleared for passengers to disembark by 10:40 a.m.
Before we left, the captain announced throughout the ship that all passengers were to be on board by 9:00 p.m. tonight in case he and the company made a decisions to leave St. John a day early. Originally, we were scheduled to be here today and tomorrow.
I went on a trolley tour of St. John this afternoon. It has an amazing history. Probably the most interesting thing to me — it brought out the true history geek in me — was when we were going to a high observation area. The trolley driver stopped and directed our attention to the rock carved on either side of the road.
On the right side of the trolley, there was a reddish-brown rock that kind of looked like granite and on the left of the trolley was a whitish-gray rock. She told us that we were on a rift from when Pangea broke apart. The reddish-brown rock was remnants of Africa and the whitish-gray rock was remnants of South America. She told us that we were historically presently situated on three continents in that little area. 😮
The captain informed us at dinner tonight that we are leaving tonight at 9:00 p.m. to get ahead of the nor’easter. Tomorrow will be a sea day on our way to New York.
We will anchor in New York and spend Friday at anchor. Saturday we will pull into Cape Liberty in Newark.
The show tonight was a drum and piper corps from St. John. As pipers go, they were very good. I left after six of their songs (about halfway through their show) because my ears couldn’t take any more. I always sit up front and that was just not good for me.
That’s all the news that’s fit to print. 🙂
g’night