Meeting Your Guides

The dock is beginning to disappear behind us.
The morning air is cool.
The sea is calm.
Some of you have traveled across the world to be here.
Others have come from just a few hours away.
Some of you know each other.
Some of you are meeting for the very first time.
But for the next few days...
We will all share the same horizon.
Before we continue our journey, there is something we would like you to know.