Day 55 - 11/30/23 - At Sea to the Amazon River, Brazil - Day 2

 Overnight we crossed over the equator and by the time of the Captain's noon message we were a few degrees north of the equator and we properly earned our crossing the equator "shellback" certificate.  Actually we earned it when we crossed the equator several months ago when we passed over it going south along the west coast of South America.  But I digress.


The morning was filled with presentations after our customary morning interdenominational bible study which turned out to be a continuation of the group sharing from the day before.  That session concluded with a reading of I Chronicles 20 on the fruit of the Spirit topic of Faithfulness.  Jeremy led off with his coffee chat with Diego Figuieredo, the fantastic Brazilian Guitarist.  He had no trouble getting Diego to speak and it was charming to hear his story of learning to play the guitar and how he got started.  Bosco then gave a nice presentation on Manaus: The Metroplois of the Amazon.  In the afternoon Richard Watkins gave his last presentation which was on The Indigenous History of the Amazon.  It was quite good but also quite sobering about the reality of the demise of the "uncontacted" people groups.  


For the remainder of the afternoon, I worked on my blog, met with people regarding the Manaus excursions, and finished up my Marc Cameron novel, Dead Drop, which is one of his Joshua Quinn series that I really like.  Quinn is a highly trained Special Forces type individual that finds himself in very scarey and physically dangerous situations, and this novel was no exception except that it included his daughter and his partner and his family on what was to be a fun evening in a theme park.  Enough said.


We enjoyed a Tamarind themed pop up dinner in the Pinnacle Grill before attending the mentalist, Gabe Abelson, World Stage presentation.  It was good, but sort of a copy of other similar presentations by other "mentalists".  Afterwards, we tried to watch the Seahawks-Cowboys football game which started at 10:15, but I fell asleep.

Tomorrow is another sea day and we'll make a short technical stop at Macapa to do some paperwork and board a couple of Amazon River Pilots.  With the low river conditions, we can only transit the river in the daylight hours.



More and more Christmas decorations are being put up.

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