Dateline: At Sea southwest of Hawaii's Kona Coast, en route to Fanning Island. One of the weird things about cruising west across the Pacific is that every couple of days you have a 25 hour day. The captain announces clocks will be set back one hour at 2 a.m.
The savvy tourist sets it back before bed the night before, and discovers s/he is going to bed at 9:30 p.m. instead of 10:30 p.m. whereupon you awaken too early. Fortunately cruise passengers have few required agenda items so they can take a nap or veg out by the pool.
Naturally enough, cruising east across The Big Puddle subjects a person to a 23 hour day every second day. That has its own consequences, not too unpleasant.
The big island of Hawaii was experiencing quite a bit of cloud cover the last couple of days as we've been ported first at Hilo and today at Kona, the latter a tender port where the ship cannot dock and pax go ashore in the rather elaborate, enclosed lifeboats called "tenders." We were never rained on but the mountain top was getting wet.
