Today is our 12th day at sea and we will be pier side in the morning! 12 days was nothing when I was in the Navy, but for some reason, they drag on very slowly on a tug, probably because we are not a 30-knot Navy vessel. I've watched a ton of TV shows that I have on my hardrive, read quite a few magazines, ridden about 45 miles on the recumbent bike and taken lots of video with my sports cam in an attempt to put together a little video when I get home. Today we had a P3 sonar plane dropping sonar buoys along our route. Apparently submarines like to hide under barges as they approach the islands to see if they can sneak up on the forces and the planes drop bouys to take a listen underneath us. They fly really close back and forth in the process and at least it's something to look at.
After we tie up and get our barge situated, I'll have all afternoon and evening free to explore Hawaii. I'll need to be back in the early morning hours to stand a 2-hour security watch and do some grocery shopping afterwards but then I'll be free for Saturday as well until we depart and head home.
The trip back sounds like it might be a little ugly as we've got some nasty tradewinds coming from the Northeast that will slow us down and make for a bumpy ride. But, being on the homeward leg, we will just be happy to be heading home. This leg should take about 12 days, hopefully putting us back in port on the 23rd.
Almost everyone on this crew seems to have a keen interest in their health. 5 out of the 6 of us, eat healthy and workout every day or every other day at the very least. For our homeward leg, we are going to track the total amount of miles that we each ride on the bike so that we can push the office to try and get other boats equipped with the same equipment. We have one crew member who doesn't really care to exercise, but he's in fairly good condition and we don't pressure him too much.
Well, I'm off to bed and an episode of Deadwood.
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