Random thoughts from the sea
Day 64, Grand World Voyage Wednesday, March 8, 2023; Kruger National Park, South Africa. We weren’t in the park for more than 15 minutes when we saw impalas and then zebras near the road. And then – elephants! To be specific, a BIG elephant that seemed to challenge our much
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Day 59, Grand World Voyage Friday, March 3, 2023; La Possession, Réunion. Today ended with the disappointing news that we won’t stop at Madagascar. The reason: Tropical Cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lived cyclones in history. Tropical Cyclone Freddy formed in early February as a “disturbance” in the Timor Sea
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Day 58, Grand World Voyage Thursday, March 2, 2023; Port Louis, Mauritius. Today we visited Mauritius — one of the small island countries scattered around the Indian Ocean on the eastern side of Africa. I didn’t know much about this island or the nearby La Réunion, which we will visit
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Day 57, Grand World Voyage Wednesday, March 1, 2023; Indian Ocean. I guess these waters of the Indian Ocean are charted – and probably well charted given satellite technology – but they are new to me. Today is our seventh day at sea since leaving Fremantle, Australia. The month of
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Day 50, Grand World Voyage Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023; Fremantle, Western Australia My last memories of Fremantle were of our abrupt end to the 2020 Grand World Voyage as the cloud of coronavirus descended upon us in late March. We never planned to visit here, but there we were rushed
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Day 48, Grand World Voyage Monday, Feb. 20, 2023; At Sea, Great Australian Bight. Leaving the ms Amsterdam suddenly almost three years ago was traumatic for the 1,000-plus passengers. We knew little about this mysterious virus coming from Asia. No one on our ship was sick, but reports from a
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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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Days 43 and 44, Grand World Voyage Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 15 and 16, 2023; Adelaide, Australia. Summertime, and the living is easy. Easy is the word that comes to mind in describing our last few weeks of cruising. Australia, and New Zealand before it, are wonderful destinations. And they
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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 41, Part 1, Grand World Voyage Monday, Feb. 13, 2023; Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. My knowledge of Hobart before coming here was as the terminus of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, one of the classic offshore yacht competitions (along with the Newport-Bermuda Race and the Fastnet Race). It also
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