Being asked to share a cabin with a stranger, encountering a naked neighbor and an indoor deluge are among the stranger things experienced at sea.
In 45 cruises, never have I experienced rough seas, a “man overboard” or an outbreak of norovirus, which, to refresh your memory, was the “it” disease on ships until the arrival of you-know-what.
Paring the most eyebrow-raising moments to a manageable few was as difficult as dragging myself to a ship’s fitness center — something to which my fellow cruisers can relate if we’re being honest. Speaking of truthfulness, while all cruisers have their own sail tales that may or may not be sprinkled with embellishment, these retellings contain no gilded lilies of the water kind.
Jet-lagged on my first night in the Galapagos, I felt like taking up the captain’s open invitation and make a 1 a.m. visit to the wheelhouse of Ecoventura’s 20-passenger yacht, Theory. On the way to the bridge, I noticed that the outside galley door was open – a peculiar sight as both cooks had turned in for the night hours earlier.
A more appetizing food story is my personal record of 11 lobster tails conquered on a Panama Canal cruise aboard the Island Princess. Each succulent section was better than the last … until the seventh when I hit the wall but persevered out of respect to the sacrificial crustaceans.Little did I know that being candid with a ship’s officer would subject my family to one of the most humiliating moments of our lives.
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