Voyage 1: Sunset Cast-off

10 weeks ago by @timfatchenMod

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VOYAGE 1: Sunset Cast-off
#honolulu harbour, leaning on the balcony rail of the #cruiseship about to cast off, looking at the October tropical sunset behind the naval yards and Pearl Harbor and the volcanic rim. Despite the Mickey Mouse cruiser in a nearby dock, over by the startlingly illuminated tower and ship-berth, and despite being on the edge of a city, it's peaceful and quiet. Other passengers all seem absent: feeding at The Trough perhaps, or lined up for a show, or hitting the casino early, anything to stave off the terrible boredom they might experience on the about-to-start 18-night voyage south across the Pacific to another hemisphere. The big--indeed gross--ship casts off, moves without noise, without vibration, without horn fanfare, without tugs, into the swinging basin; turns; out to sea through the seawalls on the reef. Further out, other cruise ships listlessly keep their steerage way in the deep, deep waters of the sea-mount's slopes, waiting for a berth to come vacant. And so we start. It's six nights of empty ocean to Tahiti.
#neoclassical #solopiano #cruising #quiet

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Piano sample courtesy Garritan Personal Orchestra

[Context: in October 2023 Deborah and I grabbed a package--air to #hawaii, four free days there, 18 nights return by relocating cruise ship via Tahiti, Moorea, Raiatea then bad weather to Brisbane Australia. The air trip was a nightmare. We were in Hawaii to see it and see it we did. The cruise was trepidation to begin with: floating condominium with up to 5000 (!) passenger--for us, whose largest prior cruising had been in a 600-passenger ship! What on earth would it be like in a Force 10 gale?? (we found out BTW). But we avoided the fleshpot aspects and enjoyed the food, the service and the ocean. And created more music of which this ISN'T one!.]

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