Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Pitcairn Island

Pitcairn Island – February 16, 2014


Pitcairn Island is best known as home to the descendants of the infamous Bounty mutineers. The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, landed on remote Pitcairn while seeking a hideaway from Captain Bligh and British naval justice. Our friends, Don and Marilyn, from Arizona and from our 2008 world cruise on Queen Victoria, have been on Pitcairn since Christmas. They are staying with relatives of Fletcher Christian. The ship was scheduled to just do a sail by of Pitcairn. But after a flurry of emails between Don and our ship, it was arranged that the islanders would be able to come out to Queen Victoria and sell their handicrafts. The entire population (all 52 of them!) plus Don and Marilyn came out to the ship in their longboat. They set up tables and sold their wares to the tune of almost $40,000 and also did a presentation on life on Pitcairn. It was a fantastic morning….and, yes….we celebrated by popping the cork on yet another bottle of bubbly!



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