A Quiet Day at Sea...

Wednesday, February 4. The Ocean a Mill Pond. Cloudy. 30 C.

Fellette and I slept like logs. Our bottoms were racked by that horrid little bus yesterday, the seating and bottom bracing did not seem that bad at the moment but we paid the price!

Fellette went for another swim this morning after breakfast and that was about the only physical exertion between the two of us today. We seem to have mastered the art of relaxation to  the nth degree! Not so sure that that is a good thing.

This meandering journey from San Diego to Cairns, Australia is coming to an end. On Sunday to be exact, this being Wednesday. I am not sure if much is going to change except everything will change: we will then be in OUR World. Our life aboard will not change, our life aboard for the last five weeks aboard has set the style of passengers we have become for the entire voyage I believe. We are non-participants in practically all the special things that most people do on a cruise. They hold little interest for us it seems. We are non-joiners at home, except for Fellette in her exercise classes. We garden, build things, fix things and just enjoy getting old together. That is us!

Tomorrow we are docked in Alotau, Papua New Guinea. That is where Fellette and I spent two full days and nights at in early 2020. We were joining a British Ship sailing from Cairns Australia [where we dock this coming Sunday.] The ship was sailing to Dubai in the UAR and then to Morocco for a month long Land Tour.

When we walked onto the ship in Cairns, that was when we discovered that we had left our Passports and money etc., in the Wall Safe in our Melbourne Hotel where we were lodging the nights before. Dah!

The ship allowed our luggage to go to our cabin but we could not stay on. So... I phoned our travel agent in Vancouver who booked me on a flight in the morning from Cairns to Brisbane, and then from Brisbane to Melbourne, where I went and picked up the goods from the hotel, then back to the Melbourne Airport and flew to Cairns . I got there a few hours after the ship had sailed. The first port for the ship was Alotau, where we dock tomorrow morning at around 8:00 am!

The next morning we flew to New Guinea on New Guinea Air. An experience but all good. We got a ride from a stranger at the tiny Airport to Alotau in his pickup, he took us to the only hotel in Alotau that a white man and his wife would stay at. I remember it being rather like a compound but we did venture outside a bit during the day because we were younger and more stupid. You might remember that year, 2020, when we got home in March that year, the World was shutting down because of our friend COVID, remember it?

We were delighted to see our cruise ship swing into the harbour, right on time on the appointed day! Another kind person from the Hotel drove us to the pier where we started another adventure!

Life is Good!

Fellette enjoyed the pool again today.

Having a Latte after the swim while the room was being cleaned. How Sweet it is!

The Ocean was so smooth today, our wake was the only thing visible on it!

There is a photo from that distressing day in January 12, 2020 when we flew from Cairns, to Port Moresby on Air Niugina!

And, there comes our Cruise Ship to rescue us from this predicament that we found ourselves in. Six years ago almost to this exact time.