So how was our Seabourn Odyssey 53-day cruise?  Depends on who you ask.  My companion loved the journey, and made a hold for a future trip with Seabourn.  I thought it was mostly fine, but a bit too long.  The fantasy baseball season began a month ago and my three teams started poorly.  However, two are now in first place and the third in second, so can't really complain.   The following are mostly my views. A huge surprise is my weight.   After we returned to Honolulu, went shopping at Marukai to purchase some o-toro sashimi for the 15 Craigside-supplied Pork Tofu for dinner and other items to enhance in-house meals, I added a large bento of curry rice/garlic chicken, with a goodly amount of fat-inducing macaroni-mayonnaise salad.   I thought this would be my last splurge before re-going on a diet.  I weighed 152-155 pounds the week I left Honolulu for Sydney nearly two months ago.  After that lunch with beer, I weighed myself, and had to repeat it three times.  For all that I ate

The  Great Barrier Reef  is the world's largest coral reef system, with more than 2900 individual reefs and including 900 islands stretching more than 1400 miles.   Is said to be the largest single structure made by living organisms, and is known as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. There are 400 species of coral growing. Is 12 times larger than the state of Hawaii, just smaller than Montana and the size of 70 million football fields. Located in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland. But, ah, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985.  And the 2020 bleaching even will even more reduce this wonder.  Why?  Global warming. But recovery is possible. Reefs can increase in diameter by up to 2 inches per year, and vertically almost 10 inches/year. But only down to a depth of 500 feet (needs sunlight), and not above sea level. A bleached reef is not dead, and can recover. Corals only spawn once/year, in the October/November period, and unfolds over a few