A beautiful sunrise as we approached this port and the pilot had no wish to take the conn, as you know by now, this suited us admirably.
We pass the Mitsubishi shipyard where a new-build cruise ship lies in the dock; this one is for one of the Carnival Group’s ships, for Aida Cruise Line, the “Aida Perla”.
We wind our way through the channel and then under a bridge before docking.
I have a busy day ahead of me and so I leave it to Karen to take some photos for you.
Our berth is the larger, green shaded area at the bottom
Samurai warrior??
Nagasaki is, of course, one of the 2 cities which experienced a nuclear bomb during WW2. We have on board some cadets, young and relatively inexperienced gentlemen who are still learning. It is a habit of sailors to ‘put one over’ on these young cadets; (I remember being told to go and get a fog-lamp from the fog locker, which, of course doesn’t exist. Nevertheless I searched fruitlessly for an hour, much to the mirth of all).
This time, our cadets were told that remnants of radiation still existed and, if they were to go ashore, they must wear protection, playing particular attention to their ‘more valuable’ parts. The ship’s doctor was in on it and sent them an explanatory letter, sufficiently full of medical terms to make it look plausible. The recommendation was that, if nothing else, one should wear as much underwear as possible, a minimum of 3 being sufficient. Well, off they went, first having to be checked that they were adhering to the recommendations. It was only after they returned that they realised that they had been duped. 🙂
Great post and pix… looks like a festival going on?
Mariners are legendary for duping the newcomers. It does build bonds. I remember the fun that my Navy husband had, when I was a new Navy wife. (I was trusting and guilable then.) Especially the delicate knitting project he requested to take with him to winter over in Antarctica. 🙂
We have wonderful memories of the sail-away from Kagoshima in 2007 – brought tears to our eyes – unforgettable! Kept our fingers crossed, Jonathan – and yesssss – great pictures by Karen. We are enjoying your blogs immensely, especially the humorous story about the cadets. We so appreciate your spending time to take us “land-lubbers” along on the World Cruise.
Thank you – George & Jean in BC
Rolling with laughter! Thanks for sharing! Great pictures Samurai Karen 🙂
Very beautiful, colorful pictures. Thank you Karen.
1:00am EST. how am I suppose to go to sleep laughing so hard at your post today?
Karen….retired RN, World 2016
Oh, how I wish I could have seen the cadets, both with the extra underwear on…probably looking like wearing diapers….and then to see their faces when they learned they were duped. Good one.
Thank you for all the work and effort in keeping this blog going. I have so enjoyed it.