No great mystery!
One can get tired of blazing sunshine, storms, bad weather, and all the other things that went with it. After 31 years, I was just glad to get back to rainy old Lancashire. I now have the best of both worlds and am now an armchair adventurer, reading books, building models of them, and even communicating with old shipmates from almost 60 years ago now.
The merchant navy as I knew it has gone now, and I had the best years, and was even able to take my wife along for the last five years, something I could never have done in a warship! Even had our honeymoon voyage aboard from UK down to Cape Town and back
Here we are at our wedding blessing on honeymoon trip in 1987 at St Paul's Cathedral, Island of St. Helena, South Atlantic, with the governor & wife (left) Bishop of St Helena, captain and fellow officers.
This just about sums it all up!