Early Cape Town Pictures

If anyone really wanted to see pictures from Cape Town very soon then you’re lucky, because I’m posting them right now because it’s raining outside and so I figure it’s a good day to go to the internet café. Here are some EARLY pictures of Cape Town and Neptune Day. The Cape Town pictures should explain themselves, if not then you should double check what website you’re at. There were some Sea Lions right next to the boat and so that’s where those were. Neptune Day was on the 24th, I think. You’re suppose to do it when the ship crosses the equator, which would’ve been before Brazil, but because they scheduled it wrong or who-knows-what we did it after Brazil and way after we had passed the equator. What happens is that you’re suppose to pay omage to King Neptune for crossing the equator the first time by shaving your head or having “fish guts” poured on you and then jumping in the pool, climbing out, kissing a fish, and finally kissing king neptune’s ring. I guess it’s an old sea tradition or maybe it’s just a Semester At Sea tradition, I have no idea, I do know that they do it every year though (or every semester rather). The best part about it by far is that we got the day off from classes!!! So far Cape Town is awesome. We just got here yesterday so it’s kinda hard to tell, but so far it’s great! If I get a hold of the picture in time, it’s a picture of me, matt, and rick with Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Cape Town in the background (if I don’t get it in time then I’ll post it later). I just remembered that there’s a picture of a baby on there, that’s little baby Ryder. He’s the youngest person on the voyage. He was 7 months old at the beginning of the voyage and my math skills are horrible so I don’t know how old he is now, but around there. His dad is one of the professors onboard.

The pictures are probably scattered about, sorry about that but I messed up when I attempted to organize them (the constant time zone change from brazil to cape town really messed me up!). But I just explained a lot of them sssooo yeah, enjoy!

That is Captain Jeremy painted green and dressed up as King Neptune (personally I think he looks like the hulk, I was hoping he’d get really mad and then just become huge and start throwing stuff off of the ship!). Some of my pictures have a spot right in the middle of them because I had a piece of dust on my lens that I didn’t notice til afterwards and I’m too lazy right now to take it out.