23rd July missed Halifax

23^rd July – At sea

We have been at sea since the 18^th initially our destination was Halifax with an ETA of 0700 today Thursday. Due to the dense fog and iceberg threat forcing the captain to take a diversionary course well out of harms way we are now heading directly to New York and expect to arrive early evening Friday 24^th instead of Saturday morning. Bit of a shame we missed Halifax but better to be safe than sorry as they say and at least we get our USA arrival requirements completed Friday night instead of four hours out of the day on Saturday.

It sound as if it will be a real shambles when we arrive as everyone has to be processed onshore meaning everyone gets off the ship and no one will be let back on board until all have been processed, it is expected to take about 4 hrs all up if all goes well!! 

Up in the foggy areas of the North Atlantic the sea was quite flat and the ship just had a steady roll. Now we are further south we are getting a bit of sun and the seas are a bit wilder with white caps and long choppy swells but the ships action isn’t bad. Health-wise I finally seem to have shaken my bug but Nancy is very chesty and wheezy with asthma, hopefully it will improve as the weather warms which it is doing daily.

We are still having issues with wifi, once online it’s no better than dial-up and chews up time then usually drops out before completing whatever you were trying to do. I have been lucky uploading to the blog a couple of times but not so lucky with Skyping Lisa, emails take for ever to download and then you find they are companies or organisations that we un-subscribed to prior to leaving Australia. Sending an email is painfully slow and a simple message leaves you watching the clock tick over as it gradually processes. I still haven’t been game to try uploading a photo.