King Neptune Ceremony for crossing the Equator – 12th October 2011

As we crossed from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemishere, in true sea faring traditions, King Neptune hosted a ceremony to initiate all the Pollywogs (crew who had not crossed the equator before) into his order of Shellbacks.

This consisted of covering them with a lot of goo, cold pasta, gravy, flour etc, and then being thrown in the pool! At the end, Charlotte took great delight in participating (as she had done back in March when we had crossed from south to north).


Needless to say, the pool was then emptied and cleaned!!

Heading south, we also crossed back over the International Date Line again – we missed October 9th but in return had 2 October 12th!