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Well, today should have been our last day in Cabo Verde but life had other plans. We ended up having a whole extra day here. In the morning, all the…

Today’s itinerary was a lot like the one from two days ago. A number of us went on a hike that took us through the city and countryside of the…

Yesterday we had the best one-day port program of the trip so far. After a chill morning, we had a hectic afternoon since the provisions arrived just before our tender…

For your present, we got you drenched with seven buckets of water 20 minutes before you had to leave the ship for a hike! It was a long day of…

For your present, we got you to Mindelo, Cabo Verde, one day early! After a whirlwind of a day with classes in the morning and deep ship cleaning after lunch,…

Another day, another memory. Yesterday, Jillian recounted the story of the Natura Watch Olympics, aka Deluge Day. She reminded us all that it was then-Watch 2 who emerged as the…

We had an All Hands SoCo session on the 1st to get us ready for Cabo Verde: shout-out to the teachers for taking over the standing watch so all us…

Another quietly exciting day onboard yesterday. Some students used their spare periods to supplement their Vitamin D intake atop the charthouse (with the mate’s permission, of course). Others had a…

We seem to have used up all the excitement the day before. Yesterday was a quiet day here on the Alex-2. Other than the fire drill, and the giant swell…

Yesterday was kind of exciting. During the night, we had a couple of helicopters fly fairly low over us. Then, around 10:00, the lookout spotted a boat drifting in the…