No Rarotonga!

As I said in my last post, we were having some rough weather; no rain, but gale force winds stirred up good-sized swells. The winds stayed with us as we approached Rarotonga yesterday, and actually forced the captain to cancel our port call there. It was too dangerous to operate the tenders to get us ashore. Of course we were very disappointed to miss out on our chance to visit one of the Cook Islands, but I didn't hear any of the passengers dispute the captain's decision. The ship circled the island slowly, about 1 mile offshore, so we could at least glimpse what we were missing. That took about 2 hours, and by the time we pulled away the sun was out and the wind began to let up a little, & conditions have continued to improve. Today is very pleasant, sunny, about 82 degrees at noon with light winds.