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<\/a>courtesy of Sharon Soucy, who’s not really from Alaska but who works in the Land of the Midnight Sun<\/i>, where even the mosquitoes have less time to sleep during the long days.<\/p>\nSharon works for the National Parks Service<\/a>. She drives tourists around the park on the only tour buses allowed in the park, modified school buses painted mostly tan, and last week passengers from the Star Princess<\/a> were on her bus. Sharon comes from Maine, where presumably she also encountered mosquitoes in summer, just not as often — and not as many — as in Alaska.<\/p>\n Oh yes, the recipe:<\/p>\n * Buy fractionated coconut oil at your local health food store Does it work?<\/p>\n “It does for me,” she laughs.<\/p>\n In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n • Carnival Magic moving to Port Canaveral four months earlier than planned<\/p>\n Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>New ships on the water from Fincantieri<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Celebrity Summit<\/a> Today, we bring you a PSA. That’s Public Service Announcement, and it’s for the benefit of anybody who expects to encounter a mosquito this summer. So, pretty much everybody. In Alaska, there are 13 species of mosquitoes. Clearly, Alaskans know something about dealing with them. To that end, today we are publishing a recipe for… Continue reading Mosquito Time\u2026Repellant Time!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,15],"tags":[137,138,818,912,72,35,26,27],"class_list":["post-24698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-summit","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t* Put six tablespoons in mason jar
\n\t* Add 10 drops on oil of peppermint and stir
\n\t* Pour liquid (it stays as liquid) in a spray bottle
\n\t* Apply has needed<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t6 nights
\n\tOctober 18, 2015
\n\tCape Liberty<\/a>, N.J. (return): St. Maarten<\/a>, Tortola<\/a>, San Juan<\/a>
\n\tInside: $449
\n\tCost per day: $64<\/strong>
\n\twww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"