Today was a beautiful warm day. We motored in to Bar Harbour as Tom and I were having breakfast in the Kings Court. We were on the first tour off the ship to the National Park (Cadillac Mountain), followed by lunch at a lobster bakehouse "Downeast Lobster Bakes". The Acadia National Park was formed by the Rockefeller and Ford families donating land and has a splendid coastal drive up to the mountain. The scenery is just beautiful. We watched lobster fishermen c...

After a wonderful brekky of cook-them-yourselves waffles, we were at Green Gables at 9am when they opened. We had to go through a picket line to get in - some sort of employee protest. So there was no-one at the ticket counter when we arrived. We waited 5 minutes and decided to go on in to at least photograph the house. We found the house was about to be unlocked anyway, so we got to go through it, and the barn exhibits. The house was where Lucy Maude's grandpa...

This morning we travelled oh so slowly down to Halifax. We could've been there at 6am!!! We were still early when we arrived, so we sailed right up the river to a bridge, came to a complete stop and then turned around on our own axis. We had military helicopters buzzing the ship, and lots and lots of pleasure craft came to meet us. It was a great welcome. Tom and I had an early lunch and were off the ship ASAP. We caught a taxi (an old cadillac) to the Avis depo...

This morning we rose at 5.30am and had brekky in the Kings Court. Our tour tickets for Sydney (Tour of Cabot Trail, all around the top half of the island) said to be in the theatre at 7.15am, but we still didn't leave till about 8am. The tender trip took about 20 minutes. Our tour guide, Maureen, was saying that on Monday (the day we were supposed to arrive) the waves were crashing into the car park. The city of Sydney had made a plaque to give the commodore co...

What a lovely day at sea. After breakfast Tom went off to a talk on the St Lawrence Seaway. I went up to the library to send emails to the girls and print off a photo they sent, for our room. I later joined Tom for the talk on the great cruise liners which was followed by a talk on shopping in Sydney (not our Sydney), Halifax and Bar Harbour. I did a load of washing - machines are at a premium, one week at sea and we're not in port. After lunch Tom went and saw...