I'm sitting here in my office in NJ, after getting off the Victory a few hours ago this morning.
A few general thoughts - the weather was perfect. I have never seen the ocean this calm for 4 days straight. It was like a lake every morning, and seas never exceeded a foot or two for the first 4 days and nights. We were on a 5 day cruise. You New Yorkers who had your 4th of July rained out by the storms - those storms came out to meet us late on the last night of the trip. More later.
Whales & Porpoises - they're out there folks, and a lot of them too. On our first day at sea (July 1) all you had to do was look out of a window for 2 or 3 minutes and you'd see a couple of dolphin's leap, or a whale's blowhole followed by its flippers.