Update: something about a typhoon

Saturday, 25 September 2010, Avacha Bay Anchorage, Petropavlosvk, Kamchatka Peninsular, Russia

We arrived a couple of hours late to Petropavlosvk yesterday morning due to the higher currents than the captain anticipated. Apparently Captain Cook's journals were not in his library. But now the good captain is our newest best friend forever since the typhoon (his Italian accent made its name sound like "Fred", which I doubt it is) is working its way up the Japanese east coast (I think he said). So we will stay at anchorage in Avacha Bay today and go on the Kamchatka Volacanoes via ATV tout today, the tour that was canceled yesterday due to the late arrive, and did I mention the Russian submarines that kept getting in our way. (I will post pictures and description of all on the blog later today or early tomorrow.) We did do a "Highlights of Petropavlovsk" tour instead of the ATV ride yesterday. Full details will be in the blog. Hint: the highlights are few but interesting. But Elizabeth Taylor was right in Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

The plan is for us to navigate on the west side of the island chain between the Kamchatka Peniinsular and Japan, essentially out of the waves and rain and arrive Sandai next Tuesday on schedule, blowing off (literally) the stop in Hakodate since we will be hidding in coves and under trees (or something like that, if I understood his announcement correctly.) He also said, "Not to worry", but this time quite a few times. We are also bunkering, the nautical time for topping off the gas tanks here in Russia, "so that we can do ANYTHING NECESSARY to avoid the typhoon", he said. What a guy.

Updates with the new blog entries and many nifty pictures of our (extended) Russian stay and then two days at sea hiding...

Check: http://cbu-nrt.blogspot.com tomorrow for all, including pix of the submarines and volcanoes.

MB
('cbu/UA)