After a good sleep, we arrived outside the harbor at Nome around 7am. The rear thrusters were really working and the tenders were deployed. Captain Arno came on several times about the sea conditions and that even with full thruster and propeller power the ship could not maintain its position. I led the 8am interdenominational service thinking that there was no hurry to get off the ship early on a Sunday morning.
Several tenders with Shore Excursions participants were sent ashore but told to wait at the dock. It would have been a real challenge if independent travelers were to have been sent ashore and they left the dock area. Around 9:30am the Captain announced on the PA system that due to the swell conditions and predicted worsening conditions that he was cancelling the port stop. The passengers on shore were retrieved and the tenders were retrieved and stowed. He further announced that we would wait for the guest entertainers who were scheduled to board here to be brought out to the ship by pilot boat.
This we did and two trips were made to bring them out to the ship and transfer entertainers from the ship to shore. I watched the loading and unloading process, and the little tender boat was bobbing like a cork and found it difficult to remain against the tender platform. Once we had the entertainers on board we set a course for our Russian port which is 3 sea days away.
The day's schedule was modified to take into account this day becoming a sea day. We had a couple lectures on Sharks by Gloeta and Tlingit sea transportation by Rachel plus an Evening Insight presentation on 'Where is the Tropics' by Jason Kelley. There was a Majority Rules Game Show and a Captain Marvel movie as well as a Disney Bears movie. We didn't watch either.
We ended our day attending Jason Kelley's Evening Insight presentation on how an ancient librarian, Eratosthenes, computed the circumference of the earth. There's a cool YouTube video on how it's done if you are interested. Also, in Nome we were 100 miles south of the Arctic.
It's now 3 sea days until we reach our first Russian port. Stay tuned.
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