Sea Day #1 Mediterranean Sea

April 12, 2025

We’ve got a somewhat complicated trip to Malta. Captain Frank has announced that this is one of the busiest shipping routes on earth. Not only does he have to look out for other cruise ships but also container ships and oil tankers. Then after you throw in yachts, your local fishing boats, unseaworthy African refugee boats and pirates, it gets a little dicey.

We were sitting in the Crow’s Nest right before he made this announcement. We had just seen us miss a massive Hapag-Lloyd container ship loaded to the max, who cut in front of us by only a couple of hundred feet. No doubt that it wasn’t that close but it sure felt like it was!

It seems weird to have “traffic” because we’ve been in the middle of nowhere for so long. We’re really looking forward to visiting Malta. I’ve been doing some research and if I thought the previous stops were ancient, Malta dwarfs them with its mystical and mysterious past that predates Stonehenge!

I got this off the internet- yep it’s crowded all right! Each arrow represents a ship