With the Christmas and New Years cruise complete we returned home to frigid temperatures but, mercifully, no snow. Since returning I have uploaded photos. While onboard I did an initial upload of a few low resolution images but the high resolution images were too taxing for the shipboard wifi so I decided to wait until now when I could place captions on each photo and replace the lo-res images. Since we did only one tour while away this album does not really show much of the islands, sorry.
In this post I have included several short videos below and this link to the complete Photo Album.
Champagne Waterfall – a shipboard tradition
Santa Arrives for the young children.
There were about 500 children and teens on this cruise
“There be whales Captain”
I did not bring any long range cameras with me so this is just proof of the existence of humpback whales. There were many whales and several calves in the shallow waters around Maui.
Leialoha’s Hula class – “Hawaiian Lullaby”
During sea days, Leialoha teaches several hulas to willing passengers. On the final day they perform in the main theatre.
Hula and Ukelele “I Wanna Go Back to My Little Grass Shack”
Leialoha’s husband, “Tiki Dave” teaches ukulele to willing passengers and they too perform solo and as accompaniment for the hula dancers.
More Hula and Ukelele “Aloha Oye”
This was the finale performance.
Spontaneous hula breakout in the Wheelhouse lounge.
“I Wanna Go Back to My Little Grass Shack” (clip)
While Leialoha and “Tiki Dave” entertained in the Wheelhouse lounge several of the hula dancers ran out to do a spontaneous performance.
This concludes posts for this tour. We have no dates yet for future tours, however, you’ll find them here when they happen.
————————— Aloha and mahalo for following along ————————–