(Just for clarity – I am at GMT + 11 and my server, located in California is GMT – 7)
It was lovely this morning as we sailed into Noumea, New Caledonia. Earlier we passed a number of smaller islands including a number sporting various industrial facilities. The actual pier where we docked is large and located in an obvious commercial shipping port. From my balcony I could have easily spent the morning watching cranes, forklifts, container lifts, and trucks going about their business.
My attempt to join my monthly Zoom “Fancy Folk” cross stitch group lasted through about the first five minutes. Once there were more than five on the call, apparently the bandwidth went beyond what the system here was willing to support and I was bumped off and not able to reconnect.
I seriously thought about taking the free shuttle bus to town or walking to town but decided to wait till after lunch. This turned out to be a major mistake. The clouds rolled in followed by first a mist, then a rain which continued with added thunder, just in case I didn’t get the idea.
So after chatting with a French colleague (currently on vacation in Japan) for barely a couple of minutes before the internet failed again. We never had a chance to get to the business portion of the discussion. I went back to stitching. The last section of The Haunted Library by Lola Crow arrived in my inbox this morning. It is fun – Mary Shelley writing …..
It was still raining when we headed back out to sea
which made for interesting looking ships, lights, skies, and reflections.
We have just tomorrow and Monday left at sea before docking on Tuesday.
