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... Did you wave on your way past? Of course I was diligently keeping an eye out for you when I was up a ladder.
Oh, and tell me, did Mr George Muggins overcome your elaborate plastic daggers all over the joint? Or did he succumb to the pussy tranquilty of Chez B ?
And please, answer anything else I was supposed to ask!
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Sox
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Sun Princess 77,000 tons, probably not in tonnes. Ten days with just three shortish shore days. Lots of sea time.We were on the port-side shown up on Deck Eleven forrard. Second row of 'windows' 4 from the front. Too high up and too far forward. We had three periods of noticeable and accident prone swells. For two of them the swells were above 7.5 meters for 12 or more hours, one of them the peaks swells were 11m or more. Lying down worked.
Will we go again? Yes. Far better than our one time with P&O Australia to the SWPacific in 2008. ? Search here.
The financial management is considering a balcony room (you have sea air if you want it). We'll be lower down and halfway down the length in any case.
Despite the relentless selling of $$$$$$$$ crap art, jewellery and clothes, we had a very good time. The food was quite good *given that 1830 passengers and 900 crew had to be fed en-masse 3 times a day.
The Beef Wellington was acceptable, but I can easily better it at home.
Three cruises appeal;
- the one around Australia from Sydney North, then West and South down to Perth and then back on the Transcontinental train. If it stops in the GBReef and I can go snorkelling, even better.
- One through the Pacific, including a stop or two in Hawaii. Pearl I hope.
- one to NZ around all four coasts & including Fiordland if the sea swells allow.
Met lots of interesting people and made lots of new friends. Some of whom say they will look us up / come on a tour of the AWM when in Canberra. Also, quite a few retired soldiers, so we reminisced about some of our Army's more renowned characters and arseholes.
We really liked our Filipino service people, little Bon (Buonaventura) our cabin steward was patience and help personified from the get-go, and the waitress and wine waiter.
Not having to cook or clean was good. As there was a good library, we both did a good bit of reading, see separate post on the book of the series - "The War That Made America" - and just watching the sea from deck lounges.
Climbed stairs as often as I felt safe.
Quite a few things went wrong for the shore days, and on the day we began heading home, which I will be writing up in the survey they ask you to fill out.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 06/24/15
Yeah a balcony is always good for some real fresh sea air and a better view and makes the cabin so much more relaxing.
I will guess the big swells were probably off Brisbane to the North and then maybe off Gladstone near the Capricorn Channel?
Oh, Smokey Cape/Point is about 320 clicks south of me.
And good to hear Mr George neither escaped nor got impaled.
Sounds like you had a great time, you might have caught the cruising bug!
Smile
Sox
It was due to her father's first sabbatical - he was an academic with UNSW's outpost RMC Duntroon here in Canberra. ~ one year at Queen Mary College, University of London. The five of them travelled over via the Pacific, Panama, Florida and the Atlantic.On the SS Johan van Oldenbanervelt. And they were passing through the Caribbean in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis! Thoroughly imprinted. So Patricia always has a far better time that I do. ;-)!
But the things I dig are the same, but differently ordered. Meeting people is really good, the sea and moist salt air area boon for my sinuses & health.
I like the motion, even when it's severe and a bit scary, it's still a buzz. I have not yet experienced anything to beat a big sea in a destroyer (USN WWII era type) going fast, or in a landing-craft going up to Broken Bay in a big sea. Both of which gave foreboding but then quite thrilled me. Yes, boring old Timbo is a thrill-seeker!
I liked snorkeling so much it has become a 'must-do more of' activity. Not sure the waters down here - even at their warmest - are quite as suitable, so the GBReef will be a part of that.
By the next cruise I should be much fitter and enjoy it more. I am still waiting for the hernia surgery, which has ended my daily walks. Once I am through that and no complications I can get real fit once again.
The ship had a timbered promenade deck all around, grippy, safe and doable, even with a fair bit of spray on them. Viz. Patricia has balance issues but did at least 3 circuits each sea day (~ 1km), even the rougher days.
Overall the older age profile, the state of the ship, and the food were the main factors in our enjoyment of the cruise. The lack of a greed driven global financial crisis didn't hurt either. ;-)!
Of the three jointly owned lines operating from Australia, we will stick with Princess. Other lines with similar target passenger profiles? Why not?
Cruising is economical travel and has unique restful aspects as well.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 06/25/15 06/25/15
Former famous racing yacht, named?
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 06/24/15
"Condor".
I have seen it up around the Whitsunday Group when we are fishing.
Smile
Sox
Are salties scary or what? That big fella on the bank is 16 ft long. Scarface he's called. Old and cunning, lives mostly on feral pigs now he's old and has less teeth.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 06/24/15 06/24/15 06/24/15 06/24/15
we were a good ways out to sea but I do remember being just able to see Smokey point / Cape? or something in Northern NSW.We had a great time.
Heaps more pictures. Are salties scary or what? That big fella on the bank is 16 ft long. Scarface he's called. Old and cunning, lives mostly on feral pigs now he's old and has less teeth.
Fair bit of rain, so the Daintree river was a degree or two cooler, so we saw eight Salties out sunning themselves. Some younger ones went into the water which was good to watch. The one in the pool was in a 'zoo' of sorts in Port Douglas itself.
Snorkeling was cool, too! On Langford Island in the Whitsundays.
Good food, far less drunken young folk.
Great food, good floor shows, no housework and no cooking.
Pics are not posting, so I will try again tomorrow.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 06/24/15 06/24/15 06/24/15 06/24/15
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