fair winds and following seas

I've mentioned before that time flows differently on ships. The venue I was first assigned to here was time travel themed which I now find very fitting, I truly believe in ship years as a concept, it feels like I've been here forever...Now that we are part way through July, September feels just round the corner. I wouldn't normally wish away my summer, back home summer is what I live for, with tech fest and all the other great festivals I get to be a part of, I tend to want it to last forever. Here the summer is going to be spent assisting 3 day cruisers which means packing everything our ship can do into a shorter space of time. We have enough activities and shows to fill a 7 day cruise so it's pretty tiring cramming it all into 3 and a lot of the set ups are in the sun, either out on the beach or on the top deck. It's funny, I managed to go through asia still pale as a ghost because I was very respectful of the dress code and being covered up, here I'm going...

There's a private island we go to every 3 days to set up a calypso band for the cruisers. I tend to go early and chill in the hammocks in the shade of the palm trees at the beach and watch what goes by. I've seen chickens running around wild with lizards, there's sharks and stingrays swimming through the waters and schools of flying fish. It's a pretty relaxed place with not too much going on apart from the beach, music and food so I like it a lot, it's being pimped out and turned into a floating theme park any day now in an attempt to attract the millennials to cruising, so I don't think I'll enjoy it quite so much then. If it wasn't changing I'd have applied to work there, the islanders have a great life, 25 days a month they have ships visit, they bring guests ashore but they're usually gone again by 6pm, after that the guys pack down and lock things up, then they set up a campfire, play some guitar and have a few drinks, they have a telesc...