Open boat

Posted by at 11:34 AM, July 11, 2004

Today is full of activities in the ship, we received a lot of visitors, starting from the morning time to the evening time.

They were trooping in, in their large numbers, Chinese, British, Africans, Americans etc of course they all reside in the UK, the Esperanza is indeed a famous ship. Few claimed to know me even before introducing myself, quite funny, they must have been members of Greenpeace who keep in touch with the latest updates of the website.

I was privileged to meet with an old member of Greenpeace, he should be in his late 70s or early 80s, Leslie Nind by name, a British who narrates his first experience at sea to me, how he developed sea-sickness, his activities with Greenpeace over the years, sailing North, South, East. A lot of meaningful discussions were evoked. He later introduced his friends to me, Janet and Richard. Attached to the lapel of his suit was a gold plated badge of Greenpeace, "this is what they gave us then as members," he muttered. When I asked about the year he joined Greenpeace, he couldn’t remember but he said, "a long time ago." He gave me his business card indicating his job as an artist, a fantastic man to have discussions with.

Still have few days left to wrap up my itinerary concerning the "Iceland Whale Pledge Challenge," indeed, I have been polished ten times I used to be environmentally!

-tomakint