First full day at sea

Nice little sleep in, although Pam had a little trouble sleeping, apparently it was quite rough about 3am, lucky I’d had a shiraz before I went to bed and slept through the ‘alleged’ rough weather.

Maybe it’s time to analyse the ship and its’ company and passengers.  Pam and I are of the younger brigade on board.  Making our way through the walkers, walking sticks and scooters is a real hazard.  I’m also a bit concerned about the navigational systems….what with all the high frequency waves bouncing from hearing aids and off titanium hips and knees, I’m sure the signals will struggle to sort out the good from the bad!  Because so many people are deaf – they talk quite loudly…I’m sure I’ll be patient (or I’ll be a patient??).  We did see one young couple this morning – I think they must have won the cruise in a raffle? 

All that said, we seem to be relaxing fine, maybe we are becoming one of them??  They all look twenty years older than us though?  Loving the service and the food,  Went for a morning walk and went to the gym this afternoon.  We did legs, arms, torso, abs, cardio….a tough three minutes!!  No happy faces there so we went to the bar.  Much better company there!!

We chose our shore excursions today (you can tell the clientele catered for when there are warnings on the excursions like….’This excursion entails 200 metres of walking on flat compacted ground and up to 25 stairs, must have good fitness’.  We are doing the simple things just to get a look around the towns where we stop.  We’ve seen a bit of Melbourne and Adelaide so we’ll just go in to town there and wander around for the day.  Beautiful blue sky and calm seas today, traveling at about 20knots, the ocean here is about 5 kilometres deep so it’s a long way to sink (not that it has ever crossed our minds).

Where we're going

Where we've been

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