It did cloud over a little as the day went on. It was very windy in one section on the walking deck, so we would cut across the inside of the ship to skip that part. We did have to factor that into the number of rotations we walked. Apparently five laps of the deck is equal to one mile. I'm not sure if the calories we "burn" walking the deck counteracts the number of calories ingested!
We had talks today on Marine Art, and how Oceans have influenced our culture, and in particular our language. The expression "son of a gun" is a nautical reference, alluding to the possibility that you were conceived either on top of or under a ship's cannon!
In the evening there was an excellent talk on "Working Dogs". It is quite humbling to witness what incredible skills some of these dogs have. The more amazing stories were about dogs that are able to detect cancer and breast cancer, at a higher success rate than mammograms. Now that is what I call a Lab(rador) report.
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