Today was a public holiday, Easter Monday, so the alarm was not set. I finally woke at 8:30 am.
After a breakfast of raisin bran and toast, Virginia and I headed to the transmitter site. I ended up installing about 45 of the 60 (20 per box) small concrete anchors that Jim Hull brought to me yesterday. I think all of the anchors are done now.
I had been invited to an exclusive tour of the engine room of the Logos Hope at 1 pm today, so we headed back to the duplex about noon for a light lunch (sandwiches–PB&J for me and ham/lettuce/mayo for Virginia, plus Sun chips) and a quick shower, then off to town.
We learned from my sister Lois that if we had been at the webcam on the hour on Saturday that our picture would remain available for 24 hours– to be selected by the hour buttons at the bottom of the webcam page. In case you missed it, here it is!
Meanwhile, I was given a tour of Logos Hope’s engine. There were only three of us on the tour. The ship is air conditioned, but not the engine room!
We learned that each of the four propulsion engines are 3000 horsepower (about 2200kw). Only two are used while cruising. There are also two main engines to generate electric power. The label on each of these engine read just over 1,500 kw. [Just one of these engines generates almost triple the amount of power needed to run TWR’s new 400,000-watt transmitter!]. The power panel showed that just under 1,000,000 watts were being used to provide the electrical needs of the docked ship.
The tour also showed us where sea water was converted to drinking water, while on the sea. Also the black water storage system — some necessary things one does not usually think about!
After the tour, I joined Virginia and Donna in the theatre at 2 pm for a presentation of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. It was very well done. I did notice that the only characters that had microphones were Peter, Susan, Edward, Lucy and the White Witch. Although the rest were recordings, I never noticed any glitches in the performance. It had a great message and opportunity was given at the conclusion for members of the audience to interact with the characters and crew. No photos were allowed for copyright reasons.
On the way back to the duplex, we stopped by the Bonaire Warehouse supermarket to pick up some bread and milk to hopefully last the rest of our week here.
For supper, we had leftover nasi goreng–the third meal from our Chinese carryout. There is still enough left for at least one more meal. We also had lettuce with grated carrots and bacon, plus the rest of the watermelon that Virginia saved from yesterday.
Virginia made some brownies with walnuts for tomorrow. Some of the crew from Logos Hope will be helping at the site, so there will be at least pizza and brownies for lunch.
This evening we had ice cream. My sister Debby commented on one of our posts, “Hope Virginia’s rash is getting better. I think I remember that ice cream is really good for eradicating rashes.” Guess what–Virginia’s rash is gradually improving!!
The long four day holiday weekend is over, so we’ll be back to regular work hours tomorrow.