Second Sea Day

Last night was a short one. Not bad news considering the rough ride. Riviera has a shimmy that we don't remember experiencing on her sister ship Marina crossing the North Atlantic. Riviera shimmies side to side at speed regardless of windspeed, direction, swells, waves, etc. I feel like it is just the ship and not conditions. That said the wind is stiff enough today that the upper decks are closed again. Clay is not happy about his walks. I went to needlepoint again today. A completely different crowd with no men. Go figure.

We had a Sunday morning breakfast at 8 am in GDR. Tomorrow I'll go back to yogurt and hope for the return of granola. After a lunch in GDR we went up for Clay an ice cream cone and to Baristas for me. I was thrilled and relieved to finally find a delicious Illy Crema and caneles!

We went to the enrichment lecturer's morning atrium information desk. Clay was looking for a recommendation on where to get a flying fish sandwich in Bridgetown, Barbados. Peter Croyle hadn't had one but gave us a lot of useful information about the landscape and conditions and distances for finding one. He told us the sandwich is called a cutter. He showed us photos of the walk from cruise port to town, including flying fish at a fish market. We plan to attend his wildlife viewing this afternoon since he spotted birds yesterday according to a question asked before we reached the desk. We had seen those birds fishing around the ship on previous segments and learned they're brown boobies.

We did find the wildlife viewing, he was teaching people how to spot flying fish. It is so windy and the water so rough, it would be hard to see a 7" long fish out of water for a few seconds. From deck 14 aft, nearly impossible. No sign of birds today though we were mostly north of the Dominican Republic. It might have been more worthwhile if he could get permission for his group to view from deck 6 where the lifeboats are kept. More protected, you can see over the rail if you're 5 feet tall and you're closer to the water. Oh well. A for effort.

We have a 6:30 pm dinner reservation tonight at Red Ginger. Tomorrow morning we'll arrive at St. Barts again. We'll see what tendering looks like to determine whether or not we'll go ashore, or see what the captain decides.