We arrived in Melbourne (pronounced Mel-Bun) today to sunny skies and 75 deg F weather. A great day, so I thought for our tour around town. We purchased our MYKI transport card for $14.00AU and headed to the bus to get into the CBD (Central Business District). As usual, as soon as I get to town, I start taking pictures - which unfortunately does not allow me to look at my feet all that often. I jumped up on a ledge to take some shots and I didn't see some metal...

After quite a bit of rocking and rolling last night due to the unusually high seas we awoke to news of the 7.5 earthquake just 90 miles outside of Christchurch. Because of the isolation factor news wise, we don't have too much details but the Captain is keeping us informed as best as he can. As I lay in bed last night the waves were so high they were hitting the windows on the 4th floor and I could hear the unmistakable ding as they crashed against the hull. The...

It's Sunday, November 13th and we’ve traveled 6,655 nautical miles to get to this rocky point in our trip. Unfortunately El Capitano felt that it was not safe to tender to Kangaroo Island so we’re going to miss one of the ports-of-call that I wanted to hit. I was really looking forward to photographing an area called Remarkable Rocks"= and Admiral’s Arch but sadly that will not be. I have however, with the power of the Internet, attached some ph...

We arrived here on Saturday in Adelaide after two days at sea. We're just in time to catch the BIG Santa Clause Parade in downtown Adelaide today, so we're going to make the 45-minute train trip into the CBD (Central Business District) to see what's on. We arrived at Outer Harbour which is about 45-minutes from Adelaide. We each had to purchase a MetroCard for $10AU and board the train for the trip into town. Everything went smoothly until we got into the CBD. T...

For those who know me, you know that I've been a U.S. Election junkie over these past eighteen months, for days, weeks and months I’ve yelled at the T.V. if only to inject some sanity in the overall campaign. Today, I arrive in Albany, Australia on Wednesday, November 9th (one day in the future I suspect) - and I find that it’s finally the END to my long, very, very strange trip - the vote is in. Our 45th President Elect is Donald J. Trump and he has ...