Tuesday, February 24. Beauty weather and seas. 19 C.
Yup, that's what it is called, The Great Australian Bight. The Bight is the indent in the underside of the Australia continent in its coastline, [in this case between Albany, just visited, and Adelaide, some 1174 miles.] This is NOT the official Great Australian Bight distance, the ship is taking a straight line approach of 1174 miles, even though it takes us some distance from the shore, and, apparently it can get a bit rough out there, but so far, so good. The next piece of land South of us on this 1174 miles is Antarctica and that is why it is a bit chilly for most passengers to walk the deck. Actually, Adelaide, is 4070 miles away, from Antarctica with nothing in between, so it will be chilly. We tried to walk the deck a bit but it was too much for us, dressed as we were.
Tonight is a Formal Night on the ship. This is to keep the Party Lovers happy on the ship, the reason for the formal night is a Masquerade Party and contest, later in the evening. Some apparently will kick it up a notch by wearing Masks to dinner. We will go to dinner in the dining room, without masks.
We have sort of decided, from now on, we will try and have a later breakfast in the Pinnacle Grill, it is nice and quiet in there but takes longer, however the service is great. We also would like to have dinner in the main dining room more often, for the same reasons. By eating in those places that means that we have less 'Boring Time' in our very nice cabin. With the clocks beginning to move forward now, it all works out just fine for us. It is not unusual for me to get a bit tired of my fellow passengers on a long trip. At home, things are different. We have a very nice mix of neighbours that we see, once in a while. Here, on this ship of Old Folks, I find it a bit depressing to be with them too much. Even though we are one of 'Them!'
Clocks go ahead here another hour tonight.That makes us six hours ahead of west coat time. [Plus that day ahead!].
A Good day.
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