Thank you, IslandThyme, for your blog. It's a pleasure to read, and the photos are quite wonderful.
As an aside, the Ladies of Picton, New Zealand, prepared lovely little nosegay corsages for those of us going ashore from Journey last month. We, too, were asked to toss these flowers before reboarding. I was sad, but not to the degree that you must have been when losing that gorgeous, bespoke lei!