Well, things just happen. Seems while we were enjoying Palau, the ship was planning to fill up with fuel. When we got there the captain was told they could not provide us with the fuel. Various rumors around the ship said they had no fuel of type we needed, captain refused to pay bribe money, or hookup’s did not match, etc. Complete speculations. One lady I heard complained that if they could refuel planes in the air, she did not see why they could not refuel ships at sea. I had a sudden vision of a shell station bobbing in the ocean all lit up. So now we are heading straight to Cebu, Philippines, a port not scheduled in the trip. It is supposed to be a beautiful city with lots of blue water. Unfortunately we will now have only one day in Manila and one day in Hong Kong. This devastated the most of the crew because most of them are from the Philippines and had plans to see their family. We were looking forward to two days there also. In the afternoon the ship was putting the reserve tanks into the fuel line and had a spill. It was quickly stopped but our cabin and corridors smelled heavily of gas fumes for several hours. We wandered around other floors until things got better. Both of the two smaller specialty restaurants are closed and the private bar also to save on electricity. We will be having dinner served on the deck around the pool until we get to port. Choir is all tuned up for singing Irish songs tomorrow. There will be a pub crawl with Irish themed drinks tomorrow afternoon. Crawlers will have four stops! We are looking up flights and places to stay in Croatia. So much at once! Who said life at sea could be boring?
Where in the world is Dalna 