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The RMS was due to arrive in James Bay, St Helena on the morning of Wednesday 10th. It is has become tradition to have a BBQ on the sun deck on the final night before arrival. The weather threatened to spoil the party with ominous shower clouds, but ultimately it was fine.<\/p>\n

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At about 0800 on the morning of the 10th the island of St Helena became visible. A recurring theme is that it was a ‘shadowy figure shrouded in cloud and rain’. <\/div>\n

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Approaching James Bay, St Helena, with Jamestown visible. The anchor was dropped and the ships horn sounded at 1000 as planned to signal the RMS was secure at anchor. I was ashore and cleared immigration by about 1100. My hotel was a 5 minute walk from the Customs House. Life on the ship had been great, but it was even better to be on terra firma again. Lazy afternoon planned and then a few days to explore the fascinating St Helena before flying out from the new airport on Sunday the 4th.<\/div>\n

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The RMS was due to arrive in James Bay, St Helena on the morning of Wednesday 10th. It is has become tradition to have a BBQ on the sun deck on the final night before arrival. The weather threatened to spoil the party with ominous shower clouds, but ultimately it was fine. At about 0800 … Continue reading “Approaching St Helena”<\/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-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}