Random thoughts from the sea
Day 38, Grand World Voyage Friday, Feb. 10, 2023; Sydney, Australia. What can top a sail out of Sydney, passing under the Harbor Bridge, by the Opera House and wending your way to the cut between the heads, finally entering the Tasman Sea? Throw in spectacular weather and yacht races
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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 51, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022; Tasman Sea. Of course I put off my packing until the very end. And it was made much the harder by our rough passage through the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Australia. At one point the
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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 1, Post Grand Half-World Voyage 2020 Tuesday, March 24, 2020; Home, Dallas, Texas I know I am really home because the laundry isn’t doing itself. There are no small navy bags to stuff, knowing that in less than 24 hours my clothes will come back clean, pressed and hanging.
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Day 64, Grand World Voyage 2020 Sunday, March 8, 2020; Sydney, Australia When does the display and ownership of indigenous art cross the line into unethical appropriation? I gained an insight into this thorny issue today while on a docent-led tour of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the
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Day 63, Grand World Voyage 2020 Saturday, March 7, 2020; Sydney, Australia Sydney is all about the water, and the excitement starts before sunrise as the Amsterdam sails into the harbor. We pass between two cliffs – the headlands – and turn first to port and eventually to starboard as
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Day 59, Grand Asia 2018 Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, Sydney, Australia: I awoke to thunder and lightning, and a check of the radar on my smartphone showed the storm was right over the city. Fortunately for us, it passed by midmorning and even the promised rain after that was relatively
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Day 58, Grand Asia 2018 Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, Sydney, Australia: Our shuttle driver said, “Better get your outside activities in today. Tomorrow we are expecting more rain than we have had so far all year.” And it’s almost December. So with that in mind, I set off on a
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