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To reschedule or claim refund please contact us at info reykjaviksailors. Ocean conditions will be a bit rough during our Whale Watching tour, so, if you are prone to sea sickness, please, ask at our office or our team for sea sickness pills free of charge. We do provide warm and waterproof overalls for our passengers. Fingers crossed to have a wonderful encounter with the Humpback Whale again!! Conditions on the ocean are favorable but we might feel some movements on the boat.

Complimentary sea sickness pills are available in our office or on the boat, so if you are sensitive for the motion sickness please ask our crew. We are waiting for you, come and join our Whale Watching tour today!! Our passengers are welcome to join complimentary tour again. Clear sky and good activity expected tonight. Let's take a chance and join our tour tonight!! Conditions for tonight looks good - so we are going ahead to try our luck!! If you are sensitive for the motion sickness please ask in our office or crew on the boat for complimentary seasickness pills.

We are expecting very rough conditions on the ocean today so we are advising passengers who are sensitive to sea sickness or travelling with small children, please, speak to our office team before boarding.

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In addition, various hand-thrown projectiles, some utilizing gunpowder or hot tar, and some including lime in order to blind their victims, were used, along with muskets, swords, crossbows, etc. He would spend hours with Eric and Margot either on his lap at any given time, or sitting side by side conveying the basic principles of drawing. The whole ship cheered like it were a touchdown at a football game. This too is my first time on this site and my father James Lomax also served on the Victorious during the pecific tour. Our doctor attended to the wounded men on the tug as quickly as possible and we laid them on stretchers in a motor boat and took them to hospital. The coming morning would bring a blizzard and deep cold. Bombing strafing attacks on shipping harbours.

Come and feel yourself like a real sailor! Due to rough conditions on the ocean we are forced to cancel Whale Watching tour. Mostly clear sky expected tonight - hopefully it will be our lucky night!! We are expecting rough conditions on the ocean, so, if you are prone to sea sickness, please, ask at the office or on board for sea sickness pills free of charge. Fingers crossed to have the same sightings than yesterday ;. Have a nice trip!!

Moderate activity and partial clear skyes according to the forecast.

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Are you going to miss this chance? We are waiting for you ;. Good morning, we are expecting lightly rough ocean conditions but whales don't care about it ;. Come and join us to this adventure! Conditions on the ocean look a bit choppy today, so, if you are prone to sea sicknes, please, ask at our office or on board for sea sickness pills. His extraordinary and radiant admiration for his beloved Gabrielle was an example to me, and to any husband, of what true love looks like. George depicted me bandaging a wounded WWII sailor.

He made me look fitter and much younger than I was. I really appreciated that George! I then came to find out from my wife Julie, that George did that with many of his portraits, always seeing beauty in everyone. George and I had a common bond, both being in a sea going service and sharing stories of shipboard life. I think George would agree with these words, so I would like to close with a quote from Carl Sagan:.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective… is precious. If a human disagrees, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another! George enjoy the Cosmos! Fletcher made rescue through smoke screen.

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Hopewell hit on torpedo tubes here. We are right in cross fire Cruisers firing on beach. Seven crew members were killed and 24 were wounded. February 14, Corregidor, Philippines "Going in very close to Corregidor.

Japs shooting from caves all morning This portrait of his friend Noah was done while they were stationed in Subic Bay, Luzon Philippines in In large and small communities across America, we remember and honor lost veterans in Memorial Day parades. Bands play, children wave flags and we all cheer with ice cream and hot dogs in hand. Looking at the drawings from forty years prior brought back many colorful memories. George shared narratives about trading his Navy issued cotton underwear for local carvings and shell necklaces. I often wonder just what the hell I am doing out here in the middle of this crazy war, deep in the South Pacific, shooting at an enemy equally as puzzled.

There is no glory in killing anything. A sudden, sobering moment of reality is the piercing shock of sound, beeping the ship to General Quarters. Our bodies explode in a frenzied rush to our battle stations. There is a strange clarity during this unconscious traverse. There are no idealistic thoughts of saving the free world.

Got your life belt? Once at my battle station, amidst the excited voices and waiting, micro-fraction blitzes of thought flash through my head. Not yetl Not yet! Then an imaginary explosion rips through my mind.

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The water is thick with diesel oil and the stench is choking. Thoughts of sharks, fire and the bottomless sea are frightening! My mind shuts off—off again! The course is one-eighty at three hundred miles per hour. The action continues fast. The flashes of gloom are gone. The bogies are coming in on us!

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Our guns are on target blasting away! There is no fear. I keep cranking out information to gun control.