Hello from Aruba!

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I’m sitting on top of One Hold on board the Enterprise looking at to sea at the sun set over the water, enjoying the warm weather and the awesome breeze. The town is busy with tourists looking to have a good time on a Friday night, and the music from the clubs and restaurants downtown can be heard all the way back at the ship.  Division 1 has watch today, so I’ve been on board doing maintenance.  We’ve had the good fortune of having WiFi reception on the ship here, so we can use our down time on our watch day catching up with the rest of the world.

Aruba has so far appeared to be the best port so far in terms of beaches and activities.  It’s definitely more expensive than Panama and Costa Rica, but I think it’s well worth it.  I’ve been here before, so I’m enjoying getting to do and see some of the things I did a few years ago.

I’ll be posting pictures from this port over the next two days, so that you can see them before we get home.  I am going back out tomorrow so I’ll be sure to snap tons of footage (photos and videos) to provide tomorrow evening.  Also, if anybody reading this is a ham radio operator, I have my HT with me and am tuned to the repeater operated by P43W available through EchoLink, so feel free to jump on and hail me (my callsign is KB3MMY).  That’s all for now, I’ll have much more to report tomorrow, I’m sure!

  • sandy o

    Hi Christiaan,

    Is it common knowledge there is free wifi on board? I would appreciate it if you could spread the news! We are missing seawave!
    Thank you!
    Cheers from chilly new england!
    4C Rory O’Donnell’s mom

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    73

  • http://www.mmapa.org Skid Schermerhorn – MMA Jan. ’45

    On text:
    P43W-R>You are DOUBLING with P43W-R
    P43W-R>System is busy with local traffic. Please try again later.

    I can see there is a carrier on but no audio.

    73

    Skid W1TTY MMA ’45

  • MMA Mother!

    Thank you for doing this!

  • http://www.christiaanconover.com/ Christiaan

    Mrs. O’Donnell,

    It is known that there is WiFi on board, and that SeaWave is accessible over the WiFi. At the beginning of cruise this was not the case, but we fixed it so that it was available via the WiFi. For the past week or so, we’ve been on “SeaWave hours” so the SeaWave system has only been available from about 1300 until 2000. Also, the main server crashed in Costa Rica so we’ve all had to move our accounts to the other server on board. There have been problems with reassigning accounts to the other server, and there are about 75 cadets whose accounts still have not transferred and are therefore not available. I know that some cadets in this situation have been using friends’ accounts to send e-mails back home. Unfortunately, I don’t think this problem is expected to be resolved before we get home.

  • Mom

    Christiaan,

    Thank you for keeping so many members of your family, and the MMA family, up to date on things. The comments I have gotten about your blog (and the videos and pictures) from other parents have been numerous. You really have made the most of Sea Term – good job!

    Mom