Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 – Kaua’i, HI to Vancouver, BC
Hawai’i Cruise 2017
The ship’s clocks are set forward an hour last night, so I’m up a bit early this morning. I go up to the Explorations Cafe for my cappuccino and pastries, since I can’t wait for the main dining room to open up at 8AM, and the Lido’s coffee is dreadful. The ship is tossing around a fair bit as we head into a weather trough in the North Pacific on our way back to Vancouver. There are also lots of clouds, a fair bit of rain, and thunder and lightning in the afternoon, despite it being 25ºC outside.
Ginny Stibolt’s Talk this afternoon: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee – what I learnt:
- Hawaii is the only coffee producer in the United States
- There were 2,800 acres of coffee cultivated in 1980; 10,000 acres today
- The 800 Kona coffee farms average less than 5 acres each
- Typica Arabica is grown in Hawaii
- Caffeine is part of: coffee, black tea, cacao, yopan & mate (made from holly)