Saturday August 10 – At Sea

James spoke today on the collapse of Easter Island. In the space of four years many of the statues had been deliberately broken and over the following years every single Moai was broken.  Some believe that the people had used up their resources and intertribal fighting began because of the lack of food.  Breaking a rival tribe’s Moai would be like toppling the statue of Saddam Husein when the Americans invaded Iraq.  Others think that the people themselves just became frustrated with their gods.  They had spent their lives making statues for the gods but the gods were not doing anything to help them.

The seas are calmer today so there are more people out around the ship.  We were invited to another cocktail party by the Captain.  By way of starting a conversation I said to the people on our left and our right that we had won the champagne on the second leg of the journey and that the people sitting next to us had won it on the third leg of our trip, so they could expect to win tonight.  Lo and behold, the man sitting next to me won the champagne on this fourth leg.  He was flabbergasted.  I think he thought I had some inside knowledge.  Just a bit of fun.

Tonight we had a tango revue by Denysa Ferreira and Victor Mongelos.  It gave the history of Tango and they performed the different styles that have evolved over time. 

A disappointing loss by the Dees!