May 2007 - Sailing To Africa

What an exciting trip it has been. When leaving Rotterdam, the waves turned bigger. Then after two days of big waves, the waves got bigger. When we passed through the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France/Spain, we encountered Force 12 winds. This equates to over 90 mph winds and the waves were slamming into our ship and over us. Chairs were sliding acrossed our dining room and took out two tables bolted into the floor on deck 5, toppled chairs two high on deck 6, and damaged a small amount of medicine when their cabinet came off its track on deck 3. Many of us went running to help out when this happened, especially the medicine spillage.

Here, Jeff is moving computers from the warehouse in Blythe to the Africa Mercy.

The good news is, I never got sick. I had never sailed before so thank God. The ship was really rocking back and forth, too. For those who have been on cruise ships with stabilizers on the ships, we don't have them. It rolls from side to side.

This is a picture of a double decker bus. I caught these zipping around Blythe, England. The bus drivers drove these just like a car around the city. I had always heard of the double decker buses in England and now I got a picture of one.