Today we arrived in Eden, Australia in NSW. It's Saturday, November 20th and it is tender time again into this small village of about 3,500 people. This is the fifteenth stop so far, but it’s nice to get into a little village like this rather than the large metropolitan areas like Melbourne or Sydney. The town is 300 miles south of the state capital Sydney and is the most southerly town in New South Wales, located between Nulica Bay to the south and Calie C...

I was early to rise this morning, before the break of dawn in fact. I wanted to try to capture the entry into Sydney Harbour so I left the cabin at 05:30 to catch the 5:45 sunrise. I was surprised by all the people on deck. It really is quite a sight to pull up on the city skyline, Harbour Street Bridge and Opera House all in one fell swoop. I guess that I was eager to get to Five Star Camera Repairs to see if they could replace and repair the mirror on my 7000 ...

Today is our last day in Sydney before heading out to sea. We had dinner with everybody on Wednesday night at Caffe Roma in Kings Cross. It was real nice to get reconnected to everybody. Jean and Renetta took the 2 1/2 train ride out to the Blue Mountains north of Sydney for the day. The girls had a little excitement on the return trip. Apparently they were in a "quiet car" and there was a young couple that got extremely agitated because a couple of people were ...

We arrived at Vancouver airport at 1:00 p.m. PST and departed on-time at 4:00 p.m. Little did we know what we would feel like twenty-eight hours later. I want to thank Irene and Les for their assitance getting to the airport, we are truly thankful for the help. I just hope you be careful on that trip to Whistler in my little baby. In any event, we boarded our B787, a plane in Los Angeles, a great, new plane capable of a 560 mph cruising speed and one that can hol...

As I lay here in the room working on the blog and pictures, I hear so many different animal sounds than I'm used to. I hear White-throated Treecreepers, Golden Whistlers, New Holland Honeyeaters, Magpie-lark (Peewee), Red Wattlebirds, and likely many more. We set out about 9:30 and headed towards West Head in the Northern Beaches. We wanted to take the 20km road from Illawong Bay in the south that heads up West Head and Resolute Beach. There's a magnificent over...