We started our day with a lovely breakfast in the dining room with some really interesting people from WA and Victoria. Tom missed out on his painting lesson today because he was only 1/2 hour early. Apparently it filled an hour before schedule. So we spent our morning watching our progress around Cape York. It was awfully hot and muggy outside, so we only went out for the odd photo. As we neared the tip of the cape we were excited to find we had service too, so ...

Today was a lovely, low-key day. We were waiting for the lift to go down to breakfast, and when the doors opened, a voice said "Colleen!" And it was Janine, the lady from Coffs Harbour that I met yesterday, and because we were all going to the buffet level of the dining room, we got to sit at the same table. It was so nice - she and her husband are soooo nice and I didn't think I'd get to see them again. She's another 1956 baby. We all got chatting at the table, ...

After last night's huge dinner we decided to have breakfast in our room - I just wanted sultana bran and fruit with no temptations. We then went searching for somewhere to read by a window, and the only inside place we could find was way up on deck 13. I sat and read whilst Tom did his art class, and I met a lovely couple from Coffs Harbour. We then met up for a couple of slices of pizza for lunch, and checked out the shop specials for today. This afternoon we re...

This morning when we woke we were already docked in Brisbane and planes were landing across the river from our cabin. We had breakfast in the a-la-carte section of the dining room, as opposed to the buffet on the floor below. We even had a table for two. It was lovely. After breakfast we wandered around, watching the passengers leaving for shore excursions, or being met by family and friends. Later on in the morning we wandered down to the schooner bar where they...

Surprisingly didn't sleep so well. Flat pillows. But woke up to find we were off South West Rocks. We had ordered breakfast to our room, which was handy. When we'd finished eating we dressed and went off to mass. Father Peter is wonderful - a retired parish priest and a laugh a minute. There would've been about 60 people or more, and we all enjoyed his relaxed manner and witty humour. The people sitting behind us came from St Clair and Glenmore Park! After mass w...