You're right, Jim. Captain Romeo will be getting on the ship in Hong Kong. I'm not sure if Captain Phillipe is getting off there, or staying on until Singapore. Terry will be getting off the ship in Hong Kong, so she'll be around for PANDA.
Just a quick rundown of what we've been doing. We took a quick trip into Kodiak the day before yesterday. There's not a lot to see there, but it's a neat little Alaska town -- kind of like "Northern Exposure" on the sea. The big deal in Kodiak is that it has the largest Coast Guard Base in the U.S. -- we had a nice conversation with the wife of a Coast Guarder from Texas. She says it's pretty different from home! Yesterday we had a great sea day. We went to a couple lectures -- one by Terry and one by a former British spy --not James Bond, but equally as entertaining. The most exciting thing that happened was that we came upon a huge number of humpback whales--around 200 of them. They were on their annual migration down to Hawaii and the Baja peninsula. It was fabulous to watch them over a period of a couple hours. We had a fantastic dinner last night with Barry Hopkins, the cruise director. I had white salmon from Kodiak--Jerry had steak and lobster. Here's the big news from dinner: Regent will announce soon that they're building another ship. The new ship will be slightly smaller--around 650 passengers. Yay!!!
We have another sea day today. Captain Phillipe tells us that we are sailing into some very rough weather. Sounds good to me--I love it when I can really tell I'm on a ship. This ship is so stable, you can barely tell you're sailing unless there is a little rough weather. I'll let you know how it goes. Peggy