Location: Underway to Cape Town
Today, we had our final how-to, where we learned about more friendship bracelet styles from Morella, as well as our final destination presentation, where Haley caught us up on all things Cape Town since she’d already lived there for several months. Other than that, we had a relatively simple day to either catch up on some final homework assignments, get some sun during watch, or some people even watched some movies. Late this afternoon, we hit a pretty big mark on our final passage: The turn to the north. After reaching the southernmost point of this trip, Cape Agulhas (a.k.a the closest we’ve come to Antarctica), it was time to make our way north to our final destination of Cape Town. Fortunately (Or unfortunately, depending on how you view things), the weather made a complete turnaround chilly with a blanket of gray clouds. We’ve closed out today with a solid dinner of chicken saute and excitement to get to Cape Town. We’re on track to get there tomorrow morning around 8 AM. Although it may be a bit of a struggle to wake up after a few hours of watch and even fewer hours of sleep, I’m sure that everyone will be on deck to round the cape, as we talked about 84 days ago. This is the last blog I have had the pleasure of writing, and all through the end of the trip, it has become a reality previously; with each day, it sets in more and more. Even with that being the case, it’s still the same spunky, weird, excited, and adventurous atmosphere on board that we’ve had since arrivalwishing anyone reading this a wonderful closing of November and an even better first of December.