I woke up around 3am and checked my phone. The ship was still parked off Three Anchor Bay. It still hadn’t moved by 7am and the wind was howling. We had expected to wake up on Friday morning on the ship with an amazing view from our room. That was not to be, but none the less, we enjoyed our regular balcony view…
We got an email telling us not to come to the port and that another message would arrive around 11am, which it did…
They will pay us back for the lost two nights and give us 20% discount off our next cruise. This actually could work quite well for us!
For Mike and I, the waiting has not been tiresome nor irritating. We are aware that these things happen and the best response is to go with the flow.
One of the things I have been thinking over the last day is the story of Lady Anne Barnard who wrote many lengthy letters when she visited the Cape. My recollection of her leaving England was one of waiting months for conditions to be ideal for the ship to leave for the Cape. I couldn’t find that online, but around 1797, this is some of what she wrote:
“The Cape of Good Hope was discovered by Bartholomew Dias, the Portuguese explorer, in 1486, when he was in search of an ocean road to India. His vessel was caught in a heavy gale, wherefore he entitled the new land ‘Cabo Tormentoso‘, or the Cape of Storms. The King of Portugal, appreciating the importance of the discovery, gave it the more auspicious name of the Cape of Good Hope, as its existence afforded a good hope of a new and easier way of reaching India, the goal of maritime expeditions of that age.”
And after her arrival, “What a bold south-easter we have had these two days! How the wind raged, and how a tall tree which is in the courtyard before my windows bent and tossed its great branches in at the casement, where the wind blew out a pane every half-hour! I shall feel more of these winds, I hear.”
She would have indeed…it’s been blowing seasonally for all time and it trapped us in this beautiful city for a couple of extra days. Cabo Tormentoso! We will not complain.
Philippians 1:2
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
These are the days!
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gym:
I’m resting
Braces:
Day 73