island lady

So beautiful there. 🥰

And they did. 🙂

I was going to check the temp in the pool...but the water was sloshing around too much at the steps...and didn't want to get my shoes wet. 😉

Yup, that's it. Very enclosed. They have locked that double glass door from the WJ eating area to that annex with a sign stating to enter from the other side. It's well listed as set up for an enclosed game/card room. You have to enter near the small art gallery and the restrooms. Not an eating area at all.

And sometimes is the reason I spend a lot of time in my cabin reading. 😉

@orville99....as requested....I visited the Solarium. Was it the hot tub you asked about? I stuck my hand in it...to find it barely above warm bath water. Not cold...but certainly not "hot" in the tub.

Loved our visit to Bully Hill...and picked up some good wine as well for our continued journey. 😉

Being very chilly outside, we are not doing our usual...sitting outside of the WJ on the aft. Unless I want to wear my polar gear and deal with gloves on my hands...we have been sitting inside the WJ for lunch. We of course are not alone in this, which puts more diners inside for lunch. We pick up our food, sit, eat, and leave......making sure our table is as clean as possible before we do so. What bothers me are the pax that are camping out at the dining tables inside the WJ...not eating...but playing cards, playing games, on their laptops/devices...etc.. IIMHO...It's OK when not busy, but during noon lunch time...it makes it tough for diners to find an empty table. There is a nice area set aside for cards, game playing, etc. in the annex right next door. Through that glass door of the annex, I noticed less than half the tables in there occupied. So now we have frustrated pax walking around trying to find a table to eat at. Shame. Please people, be considerate during lunch time...and take your games elsewhere. OK...off my soap box now.

The TV system on this ship is quite antiquated. Not interactive, and very limited info. Oh well, it is.... what it is. There is always Google. 😉

Before we became brittle boned seniors...we used to do a lot of snow skiing. On one trip to Whistler/Blackscomb north of Vancouver... we rode the lift with a guide that volunteered his time (to get free lift tickets 😉 ). He asked if we wanted to follow him down the twin mountains. We happily agreed! At one point he stopped and had us look down, while he scraped the snow away to reveal bright baby blue color. Told us we were skiing down a glacier. How cool!!....errr...literally! 😄

Me too....but I think many of my fellow cruisers will keep it going. 🥰

LOL...I have that poster on "ignore" and only see his posts when someone quotes him....so I guess the captain is on his own. 😁😆

He was looking for it...but never saw them list it. 😄 Which is probably a good thing. 🥶

Have done Alaska 5 times. This last time our usual B2B on Radiance was cancelled (Covid) but we still went there, simply replacing the 2 week cruise with a stay in a cabin in Homer, owned by the "Alaska the Last Frontier" gang. We are booked again on Radiance B2B for next year. Indeed, they put the little speed boat in the water and actually chopped the chunk from the Glacier. They did an ice carving with it. Have done the Taku Glacier float plane tour to the Salmon bake several times, and want to do it again. They fly over 5 different glaciers. The Salmon bake is at the foot of the glacier. Beautiful.

Remember when I posted the picture of the little life/speed boat collecting a net full of floating ice slushies in Paradise Bay Antarctica? Apparently this is where it ended up...on the stage...on the pool deck. And is the closest thing Bucky got to stepping foot on an iceberg...actual foot...brrrr... Yes Dave, barefoot...no flip flop. 😆

Current position....pretty much in the middle of nowhere. 😉 And a balmy 39 degrees, but full sunshine! 🌞 The big difference, is though we have a rockin rollin situation again....it's a mild swell. Not the crazy seas we had on the way down. So, at this time, we should make the Falklands on a 2nd try.....perhaps. Weather showing 28 mile an hour winds tomorrow, however. Not sure at what point they can't tender, or how protected our tender area is. In the meantime...welcome to yet another "day at sea".

Very kind of you to say so...thanks!

Thanks! Yes, I will rejoin the posts once again in Barcelona. Though for some reason if this thread has gone "poof" by then (which I don't think it will).... I will restart. 😉

My humble additions to the Elephant Island experience. 😳

OMG...great job John...way better than what I could do! 🙂

Looking forward with the binoculars, can see Celebrity Eclipse already floating off the island. Two big sections of the islands. Also MS the world (Residence) is on the other side further north. Not close enough yet to get a decent shot of the island.

Next stop...current position...Elephant Island. Not a docked up port, not even a tendered...and only supposedly there for 2 hours from 6 - 8 pm. I guess just a "looky-loo"....dinner view. Will at least still be light enough to see it. Little background info: Elephant Island, Antarctica, is named after the elephant seals that make their home there (as well as for its elephant-like shape). The island is located 150 miles off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands.

I am just glad we are able to get out of their path. 😲 Luckily they are not "killer cubes" and move very slowly ....so we are able to do that. 😬 Happy to have our "ice pilots" (as the captain calls them) on board our ship. Happily we have come a long way in navigational ability...unlike those poor souls in the days of Titanic. 😥

Awww...thanks! You make me so happy to hear that. We are all loving being able to take you all along, our virtual cruisers. 🤗

Yes, indeed love the wineries there as well. 🥰 So many different varieties of grapes...makes unusual wines. And such beautiful area. We are headed to Portland Oregon in June. Will stay at a winery guest house just south of Portland for two weeks. Pretty house right in the vineyard. Then we board American Queen (looks like a vintage old paddle wheeler) to do a B2B from Portland to Spokane and back. Kind of the Lewis and Clark trail on the Columbia and Snake rivers. We will get back just in time to repack and rejoin Serenade in Barcelona for her last quarter, ending in Miami.