Two Shoes Tuesday # 28 -- "Sea"

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Our run had taken us six days and nights

without putting our feet to the ground.

I may kiss it when we land.

Water, water, waves, everywhere. 

We were at sea and had been

for, it seemed twenty years.

   

Only six days, six long and lonely days.

 

Nothing new, just our ship and the sailors there. 

Yes, we did pass an occasional cargo ship or tanker

a couple of miles away.

 

The food was the same day after day 

with only seven menus for the whole run. 

It was good but we'd had the same the day before. 

 

"Wash your socks" was the order of the day. 

I wish I had of packed more,

I'd chunk them overboard every night. 

 

For excitement we would feed the whales,

sharks, and the seals.  That is if they would eat

the grub our 'chef' had cooked. 

 

Three card draw and dominoes we could always play

but we did that for only the first few days. 

 

I wonder if the fish would wear my socks? 

 

What a happy early morning sight,

the Sydney Harbor in the dawn's dim light. 
 

We will rub elbows with the tourists 

at the Sydney Opera House and

walk the Sydney Harbor Bridge. 

Do the Botanical Garden and explore the first
First Lady's green pleasures.

We'll have some fish and chips
at the Sydney Harbor Fish Market.

     

Monday morning we'll be reloaded

and then it's back to sea again.  I hope

there will be grub and time for more fish and chips.
 

 

Each week Josie Two Shoes (link) provides a one-word writing prompt and invites us to share a short story, poem, essay, thought, or photo relating to that topic.  We are not required to use the actual word in the post, but it is to be used as the theme. 

The writing prompt for Tuesday, January 29th

(as chosen by Old Egg at Robin's Nest) was "sea"

  

Notes: 
1. Mrs. Jim and I were NOT on the ship in the story.  The story is fiction.  On our cruise we were never at sea more than two days in a row.
2. The pictures are from our recent holiday, a 14-Day Princess Cruise of New Zealand and  Australia.  They are of our arrival to Sydney where we stayed on our own three extra days.  The things we did there matched the events of my seaman tale. Mrs. Jim and I shared an order of fish and chips at the Fish Market.  Her plate looked like mine pictured above as we shared one order.
3. Oh yes, the food on our cruise was wonderful.  Most items on the menus were different each day.
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