Random thoughts from the sea
Day 45, Grand World Voyage Friday, Feb. 17, 2023; Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia. Okay, there was no tying down of kangaroos on Kangaroo Island. But the song kept running through my mind today. Kangaroo Island, just off the coast of Adelaide, is a tender port that takes us into the
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Day 41, Part 2, Grand World Voyage Monday, Feb. 13, 2023; Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Super Bowl Monday? That’s what it is here in Tasmania, with the kickoff live at 10:30 a.m. local time. The Zuiderdam’s World Stage is about one-third full as the game is about to begin. Many passengers
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Day 37, Grand World Voyage Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023; Sydney, Australia. On this, my sixth stop in Sydney, I “got outta Dodge,” as they say. My sisters and I took the popular day trip to the Blue Mountains, an area about a 90-minute drive west of the city. The tour
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Day 40, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Friday, Nov. 11, 2022; Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand. Today’s destination is acclaimed to be New Zealand’s most famous tourist destination, a world’s top travel destination and the eighth Wonder of the World (the latter according to Rudyard Kipling). And
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Day 37, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Our serendipity of docking at the Overseas Passenger Terminal in Circular Quay in Sydney was everything I could have imagined. We pulled in at noon and I lucked out, as my stateroom
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Day 35, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022; Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia. Yesterday the captain warned us that tendering at Moreton Island might be tricky. I wonder if he knew then it would be impossible and was just preparing us for the news. The seas
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Day 33, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Friday, Nov. 4, 2022; Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia. Today brought another new and fun port on the Australian east coast between Cairns and Sydney. On previous cruises I’ve visited the city of Brisbane, the beach resort town of Mooloolaba and the
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Day 32, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022; Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It is almost as if God gave Queensland, Australia, a beautiful coast where the rain forest meets the pristine sandy beach and decided it was too much of a good thing. So, God put
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Day 78, Grand Half-World Voyage 2020 Sunday, March 22, 2020; Perth Airport Terminal 4, Perth, Australia We’re off the Amsterdam and on our way home. We left the ship this morning about 10 a.m., “running a gauntlet” on the outside promenade deck. The captain, hotel manager and cruise director led
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Day 76, Grand Half-World Voyage 2020 Friday, March 20, 2020; At Sea – Indian Ocean I looked at my original grand world voyage calendar this evening and saw that we should have spent the day in Bali, Indonesia. Instead, our Indonesian and Filipino crewmembers entertained us with their always-popular crew
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