At Sea...

Tuesday, February 14. St.Valentine’s Day. Chilly, calm seas but with quite a heavy swell, it makes for  some difficulty walking. 

Our next stop is Adelaide, tomorrow at around 2:00 pm. We stay there overnight and leave at 11:00 pm. We don’t have too much planned for the time we have left in Australia. This is a very civilized and orderly country, similar to ours and any in North America. It doesn’t seem to be a Foreign Country to us. We have become quite familiar with most parts of it over 24 years. We have visited by Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Coaches and Ships. As a result, we are not so inclined to get on a coach and drive around with 30 other people sightseeing. Granted, our fading memories do not recall the details, and changes have occurred: not always for the better, so we are just here ‘For the ride’  so to speak. Beautiful  people, very interesting countryside and wonderful memories. 

The Internet here is pathetic, however, when I think back to only 24 years ago when we set off on our first World Cruise with the P&O ship Oriana from Southampton, England in January 1999, how much it has improved! Then, there was no such thing as the wireless internet, to my knowledge. 

We had Telephone Dial Up. Remember the screeching dial tone when connecting? I bought my first computer before that cruise, I should say that Craig and Steve at Canada Ticket bought it for me, Wally had just taken over at Canada Ticket. I lugged that heavy computer off the ship in every port for six weeks until we hit Cape Town, South Africa, after that I went to ‘Internet Cafes’ and used their computers that were set up for dial up properly . I remember then, when in Hobart where we were yesterday, that I was in an Internet Cafe near where the ship as docked, having successfully Dialed Up to Canada Ticket, when the ship sounded its powerful horn, giving passengers ashore notice that it was time to get aboard. I thought, What a Wonderful World! Now, here I sit in our spacious stateroom, and can send my messages, and the blog, in a matter of three or four minutes, which seems long because at home it is  almost instantaneous. Crazy wonderful world.

Today there is all sorts of Valentines Day stuff to keep this Floating Rest Home’s occupants to thinking that we are all newlyweds. It is a Formal Night tonight so we will get all gussied up and have a glass in the Crow’s Nest with the Cutlers before the Steak and Lobster meal. How bad is that?

No pictures today.

Good Day...