PITCARIN ISLAND (20th day of our journey)

After 9 1/2  ays at seas we arrived to Pitcairn Isle at noon today as scheduled. The island is a 4x4 mile land mass, inhabited by 43 people, made famous by the book Mutiny on the Bounty. Supposedly all of the people that live there are related to the indigenous Polynesians and the sailors from the Bounty. Apparently, they are currently they are looking for people to live there, so if you are interested you may apply. Like Easter Isle there are no docking facilities and the seas need to be flat in order for the Tenders to land. Yes, you guessed it. We were unable to go ashore. Believe it or not just seeing land at this point was a relief!
Since, we were unable to visit the island the natives brought their goods to the ship in a longboat. What was most interesting was their appearance, I do not know if you will see in the photo's below that the the people who we saw all did seem to have a family resemblance. They support themselves by selling a small amount of goods to passing cruise ships.

LAND HO!

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4:30 this afternoon on our way to Polynesia ...This means more days at sea but, once we get to Polynesia it will get ore interesting...