Peter's Travel Blog

Today we have been at sea, heading for our first Caribbean port, Grenada. Not a lot has happened; I’ve run my two classes, and it’s been hot!

Today, we dropped anchor off the Salvation Islands of French Guiana; Iles Du Salut. A tender boat operation began aroound 9am, and we were ashore by about 10:30am, with very little bother from the current, which is always a little unpredictable in this area. Iles Du salut is a small group of three islands; Il Royale, St. Joseph, and the...

We have now left Brazilian waters and are back out in the Atlantic Ocean, heading towards French Guyana. We have the Conference Room back… Yeeeey! Whoever’s brilliant idea it was to give the Entertainments Department’s Conference Room key to the Brazilian Officials (so that they could come and go as they please), wants shooting. Needless to say, it hasn’t been...

Today, having sailed out of the mouth of the Amazon, headed South a little way, and then back West, into Brazil along the River Para, we dropped anchor by our final Brazilian destination, Icoaraci, a stone’s throw away from the city of Belem (which is a shortened version of ‘Bethlehem’). We were given escorting duties on the ‘Belem Transfer’, which...

Today has been a long, relaxing day on the river. Because the Brazilian authorities still occupy the Craft Room, I haven’t had any classes to do, so I’ve spent most of the day in the cabin, painting scenes from where we’ve been, emerging for only for lunch and for some fresh air in the late afternoon.