The South African authorities decreed that cruise ship passengers could not come ashore except to be driven directly to the airport. This was going to take a while for the Silversea company to arrange, so we spent much of our time looking out from the upper deck of the Silver Cloud. On one side was the dock, from which the ship was being refueled, reprovisioned, and relieved of its accumulated garbage.
On the other side was another dock, at which the large German ship Aida, with several passengers who had tested positive for the coronavirus, was moored.
And into the harbor steamed another, even larger, cruise ship, the Norwegian Spirit. The various aspects of the shutdown of the travel industry were playing out in front of us.
I was struck by the similarity between the passengers lined up on the rail of the Aida, and the king penguins lined up on South Georgia, mountains in the background in both scenes.
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