Monday, January 25, 2016

At Sea

On our run from the Caribbean to Brazil, the cruise director hosted a new fashioned Equator Crossing ceremony.  (We actually crossed at 10:16pm that evening, but the CD isn't the navigator thank goodness).

Cruise director as King Neptune, with his wife to the left and ACD John in the raincoat



ACD John and the royal fish

Slimy pollywogs are invited to come forward and be cleansed of their sins and join the ranks of the trusty shellbacks.  Initiation consists of kissing the Royal Fish ("No tongue").



Pollywogs are then cleansed with the waters of the briny deep, actually just very cold water.  Who knew that the Oceania demographic would enjoy and PARTICIPATE in a wet t-shirt contest?


1 comment:

Erin said...

As trusty shellbacks many times over, we'll let others participate and just enjoy the spectacle ;-)