{"id":691,"date":"2018-01-09T03:31:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=691"},"modified":"2018-01-11T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T18:17:52","slug":"landing-on-tristan-da-cunha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Landing on Tristan da Cunha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the morning of Sat 6th January the RMS weighed anchor off Inaccessible Island and steamed north to Tristan da Cunha, anchoring close in to Calshot Harbour. This was our last opportunity to get ashore, so we were all anxious. The first RIB came out to the ship and assessed the conditions as workable and the captain announced that disembarkation would proceed. The immigration official came aboard and we paid our landing fees, had our passports stamped and were issued our disembarkation cards. Then began the waiting game. Passengers donned a lifejacket and harness and one by one climbed down the pilot\u2019s rope ladder to waiting RIBs to be ferried ashore. Due to the wind and waves and rolling of the ship this was a slow process. I had disembarkation card 62, so it seemed like an eternity before my group was called and then in no time we were ashore.<\/p>\n

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It was already 1200 by the time I made the short walk up to the famous sign and distance post across the road from the Post Office and boarding was likely to start at 1400 with the sounding of the ship\u2019s horn, so I only had a couple of hours to look around. I picked up a few souvenirs and had a coffee and obligatory lobster tart while I wrote a few postcards.<\/div>\n
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I walked past the supermarket and administrators house, photographing the RMS at anchor on the way.<\/div>\n
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I stopped for a quick beer at the Albatross Bar with other ships passengers and a few locals. The foundation stone of the hall was laid by HRH Duke of Edinburgh in January 1957. I bumped into one of my fellow passengers shortly before 1400 and we went for a coffee and lobster sandwich. As expected, the ship\u2019s horn sounded at about 1400 and we meandered our way back down to the harbour. I had plenty time to explore around the harbour before getting onto a RIB back to the RMS. Getting into a harness whilst the RIB was bouncing around wasn\u2019t easy. My turn, wait until the RIB rises on a wave, step onto the rope ladder and about ten steps up to the portal on \u2018B\u2019 deck. Boarding took considerably longer than planned, so the RMS didn\u2019t weigh anchor until around 1800 before heading a little west, turning and doing a fly-by salute to Edinburgh of the Seven Seas as this was her last visit to Tristan da Cunha. She then set course NNE for St Helena.<\/div>\n
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    On the morning of Sat 6th January the RMS weighed anchor off Inaccessible Island and steamed north to Tristan da Cunha, anchoring close in to Calshot Harbour. This was our last opportunity to get ashore, so we were all anxious. The first RIB came out to the ship and assessed the conditions as … Continue reading “Landing on Tristan da Cunha”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}