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Day 29: Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands … French Polynesia

Friday, 3 February 2017 (Part II)
At Sea — South Pacific Ocean

Stats @ Ship’s Time 10:00p (MIT) … UTC 7:30a (4 February)
Temp: 82.4F (28C)
Position: 8.55.46S / 140.06.03W

A “country that no description could fit the beauty.”
~ Herman Melville … said of Nuku Hiva when he deserted the
whaler Acushnet in the Marquesas to live among the Typee for a while. ~

Our day started at sea.  A gorgeous day — just like the past two days, but the wind was still strong … and still slowing us down.  I didn’t even make it around deck 10 once before I threw in the towel and did my morning walk by going up and down the interior staircases and around the passenger decks.