Last year on this same date, PUMA was heading to Cape Town and has corssed the equator for the first time. Kenny, Casey and Michi were all introduced to King Neptune. Here’s the blog that came off the boat…

I’m glad that’s over with – crossing the Equator that is.

It should have been dubbed “and now for a break in the action…The infamous equator crossing.” King Neptune visits the first timers and gives out a little punishment for “past sins” whatever that may mean. Personally the entire thing has a bit of college hazing to it. Or a bachelor’s party gone bad without the alcohol.

Why am I so intent then on writing about a ritual that doesn’t exactly make much sense to me? Because I was an interested party like it or not. Casey Smith, Michi Mueller and I were the first timers aboard il mostro. There had been months of speculation on the deeds that would be performed- all in a humorous sort of way, all with a twinkle in the eye of the person expressing the inappropriate deeds.

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