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Pacific Odyssey - Leg 5
Papua New Guinea to Osaka - for more information see http://www.salts.ca/010_SALTS_odyssey.htm
tracking Pacific Grace: 66 recorded positions
tracking Pacific Grace: 66 recorded positions
| Last Position: 31°15'0.00 N 121°30'0.00 E on February 22nd 2008 @ 22:00 |
Ship's Log:
Today the 4 crew members who visited Beijing returned to the Grace. The=
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all have wonderful stories to tell. Jose and Antony flew home this
afternoon in order to give them time to be in Beijing for the Lantern
Festival last night, whereas Gillian and Sarah B. took the night train
again, returning this morning so they could spend some time at the Silk
Market and interesting side streets around the market, here in Shanghai.
Tomorrow there is another group of crew and trainees leaving for Beijing on
the night train. Tomorrow there will be an Open House on the boat for
Timber Companies from Canada showcasing B.C. timber to the Chinese. They
are catering a meal for everyone who visits as well as all the crew and
trainees who facilitate the Open House. Crew is required to be here; it
should be interesting. Sara R. spent a very interesting day exploring
Shanghai on her own. She visited a bazaar full of tables covered in
Cultural Revolution memorabilia. She also found the īCricket Marketī where
turtles, birds, crickets etc. were in small cages and boxes and were being
sold. She said that no one bothered her there to purchase an animal,
instead she received queer looks from merchants wondering why a young,
red-headed woman was in a īCricket Market.ī Elske, Bec, Arwen, Karen and I
had a funny experience yesterday getting rides in taxis with the 5 of us.
Cab drivers want only 4 people per taxi, perhaps it is law, weīre not sure
and we didnīt ask, but we were with the 5 of us going to 3 different places
and itīs complicated enough to make ourselves understood, let along explain
that we need two taxis to follow each other
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all have wonderful stories to tell. Jose and Antony flew home this
afternoon in order to give them time to be in Beijing for the Lantern
Festival last night, whereas Gillian and Sarah B. took the night train
again, returning this morning so they could spend some time at the Silk
Market and interesting side streets around the market, here in Shanghai.
Tomorrow there is another group of crew and trainees leaving for Beijing on
the night train. Tomorrow there will be an Open House on the boat for
Timber Companies from Canada showcasing B.C. timber to the Chinese. They
are catering a meal for everyone who visits as well as all the crew and
trainees who facilitate the Open House. Crew is required to be here; it
should be interesting. Sara R. spent a very interesting day exploring
Shanghai on her own. She visited a bazaar full of tables covered in
Cultural Revolution memorabilia. She also found the īCricket Marketī where
turtles, birds, crickets etc. were in small cages and boxes and were being
sold. She said that no one bothered her there to purchase an animal,
instead she received queer looks from merchants wondering why a young,
red-headed woman was in a īCricket Market.ī Elske, Bec, Arwen, Karen and I
had a funny experience yesterday getting rides in taxis with the 5 of us.
Cab drivers want only 4 people per taxi, perhaps it is law, weīre not sure
and we didnīt ask, but we were with the 5 of us going to 3 different places
and itīs complicated enough to make ourselves understood, let along explain
that we need two taxis to follow each other
Observations:
partially cloudy, warm temperatures
Readings:
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