Caroline and I sailed on the world's largest cruise ship, the Wonder of the Seas ( WOTS ), April 20 through May 12, 2022. The WOTS is operated by Royal Caribbean, and has 18 decks. When full, the ship has 2,300 crew members and accommodates up to 6,988 guests across its 2,867 staterooms. We were on this ship for 4 consecutive cruises (more on this later). For the first cruise, from Fort Lauderdale (FL) to Barcelona (Spain), there were "only" 3,648 passengers, which was 52% of capacity. We were on one of the last cruises in January, 2020, before the industry shut down. That was on the Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas . Two weeks later, the crew and guests on the cruise ship Diamond Princess were quarantined in a Japanese port. For us, it was a lucky miss. Now, we were on the WOTS . On February 15, 2022, Royal Caribbean lifted their mask mandate, and no masks were required for vaccinated passengers, although all crew used KN95 masks at all times. And the
I've been in Davis for three weeks, and I also have seen no cats. (Excepting the one house-bound cat I'm "sitting" for as one condition of my cheap sabbatical rental.) I run through the UCD campus most mornings before 7 am and have been surprised not to see feral cats. There are many more small songbirds than at USU, and a prodigious amount of squirrels. Also a much more lenient policy toward bringing dogs on campus, although I doubt that has anything to do with the absence of cats. In my neighborhood I've seen no cats but there is a large white feral rabbit.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was a student there, I had a hypothesis that I was seeing more black cats on campus because owls were eating the lighter colored cats. Obviously, I didn't know owl sensory capabilities!
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