Day 6 and 7

Another port of call was cancelled – Sydney, supposedly due to inclement weather and very strong winds. The captain decided to spend the night in Halifax and then proceed directly to Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. We spent the day at sea reading, eating, drinking and going to lectures. The lectures are probably the best part of the ship’s program – very well researched, informative, interesting and well delivered – all by the same guy, the destination consultant called Niki Sepsas. Day 6 lectures were about Canada’s maritime provinces and about whales and whaling. The night was pretty rough so we docked in Charlottetown two hours late. We put on 5 layers of clothes, scarves, hats and gloves, and braved the arctic cold (33F and 60km per hour wind!) to walk around this pretty town. We visited the cathedral, did  some shopping and had a nice lunch in a local pub. Al bought a Russian fur hat with ear flaps.