This final day at sea started a bit slow. Overnight we lost another hour which totaled 2 1/2 hours adjusted forward over the last 3 nights. We got up after 8:30am and missed the 9am coffee chat with the Naturalists. After my typical two broken eggs over easy breakfast in an uncrowded Lido I went to the Paul Hill photography session on why landscape photography is not about the land. Expedition leader followed up with his presentation on wildlife images he took around the world which was a better photography presentation. There was a noon Master Class in photography that I missed due to a conflict with lunch.
After lunch Pearly Kee, EXC guest chef did a Malaysian curry shrimp and deep fried spring rolls demonstration in the Wajang theater. But the high point of the lectures was Terry Greenberg's 2pm presentation on China in the 21st Century or Making China Great Again. It was the best lecture of the cruise and may have been the best lecture we have heard on a cruise ship. Ashok Ferrey ended the lectures for the day with his talk on how to get published.
We continued to experience relatively flat seas and warm temperatures and lots of marine traffic. That led to walking around the deck for a mile before we ate a Gala Night dinner in the Main Dining Room. Jonathan Johnston, a Irish flautist, was the evening entertainment; and he was pretty good.
Naturalist Jason Kelley was the presenter at Story Time in the Crow's Nest at 9:15pm. He had an interesting story about crossing the equator on an expedition type ship. But most bizarre, at the end of his story, he simply said thanks to the small audience and walked away without entertaining any questions as has been the custom at story time. KK wasn't there but Renau, Cruise Director, was.
Tomorrow we are on tour in Porto Malai, Malaysia.
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