Noon Report: Location: S 26° 39.99′, E 153° 08.23′ Speed: At Anchor Course: At Anchor Weather: Clear Temperature: 24º C, 75º F Wind: ESE 10 knots We arrived at Mooloolaba (pronounced mah LOO lah bah) harbor this morning and began deploying the tenders (life boats). When that happens it becomes “yo-yo day” on Deck 2. […]
Noon Report: Location: S 30° 27.41′, E 153° 31.33′ Speed: 14 knots Course: 10º Weather: Clear Temperature: 24º C, 76º F Wind: NNE, 17 knots Today we had the annual stockholders’ meeting for a family business. The meeting was Friday at 9:00 am Mountain time. That’s Saturday at 3:00 am in Sydney or 2:00 am
Noon Report: Location: S 33° 51.75′, E 151° 11.08′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Clear Temperature: 23º C, 73º F Wind: NE, 10 knots We had one excursion booked today and it didn’t leave until 1:00 so we took the opportunity to start the day a bit slowly. Exercised and breakfasted we hopped the ship-provided
Noon Report: Location: S 33° 51.76′, E 151° 11.08′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Clear Temperature: 22º C, 72º F Wind: NE, 8 knots Looking back on it today was an incredibly huge day. It started at 5:15 a.m. when our alarm went off. We were up and in the Explorer’s Lounge shortly after 5:30
Noon Report: Location: S 37° 04.42′, E 149° 54.44′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Weather: Clear skies Temp: 65º F / 18º C Wind: NE 10 knots We’re gettin’ so so lazy! We looked at the schedule today, and reviewed the port talk description of our excursion, and decided that we’d get plenty of walking in
Noon report: Location: S 38° 59.40′, E 147° 26.90′ Speed: 10 knots Couse: 69º Weather: Blue Skies! Temp: 61º F, 16º C Wind: SW 3 knots Sea: Calm Sadly, this will be a very short post. I’m busy studying for an upcoming board meeting so today’s activities (and writing about them) were very limited: 9:30
Pronounced JEE-long Noon Report: Location: S 38° 07.81′, E 144° 22.66′ Speed: At Anchor Course: At Anchor Since we had a very late night last night and a reasonably late (9:15) excursion this morning we had a bit of a lie in. (That’s Aussie for we slept in.) But we were up, fed, and about
Noon Report: Location: S 39° 09.47′, E 145° 45.59′ Speed: 18.5 knots!!! Course: 311º Weather: Cloud cover Temp: 61º F Wind: SW (234º) 26 knots!!! We spent some time this morning up on deck 8 in the second floor of the Explorer’s Lounge hanging out and reading and being tossed around by wind and waves.
Noon Report: Location: S 42° 52.97′, E 147° 20.28′ Speed: Docked Course: Docked Early start to the day as this was the first Australian port. We (all passengers) had to bring forms and passports to clear immigration which made the morning excursion process a bit interesting. However our excellent Shore Excursions staff demonstrated, once again,
Noon Report: Location: S 43° 55.20′, E 152° 41.83′ Speed: 14.4 knots Course: 276º Weather: Overcast Wind: NE 12 knots Air Temp: 60º This is the 4th day of a 4 day crossing from Wellington, NZ to Hobart, Tasmania (counting the ‘scenic sailing’ day as a sea day since we didn’t set foot on dry