Lisa helped us perform all those techno duties at Brisbane airport that one obliged to do these days, how things have changed in just the few short years since I retired from work and very soon we were on our way. A maxi cab from Sydney airport and $100 lighter we arrived at White Road cruise terminal about 12.30ish, our allotted boarding time was for 1.00pm. With so many people needing to board ship in just a few hours a staggered allocated time slot would seem to be the logical way to conduct a seamless operation. Everyone has an allocated boarding time relative to your deck level and cabin number and they even send you a text message the day before stipulating not to check in before the allocated time. Too easy, only trouble is obviously no one read there text messages or their cruise directive. Raffety rules, after checking in about 1.15pm we had to wait until about 3.30pm before finally getting on-board, at least we had seats to sit on and surprise, surprise no-one got left behind.
Sailing was delayed from 4.00pm until 6.00pm to be a part of the Sydney light show. Sydney looked spectacular with coloured laser lighting showing up the CBD, Rocks area, coat hanger and opera house and as we passed under the bridge and past the rocks are Sea Princess made her presence felt with massive blast of her horns all quite fabulous but hell it was cold.
Out through the heads into open water the captain had warned us of 7mtre seas, very rough with strong southerly winds bringing the cold from down south.
Bed seemed the best place and sleep through the worst of it and either we were dead tired or it wasn’t as bad as they predicted as fortunately we both survived the night without incident.
23rd At sea grey cloudy skies, very cold outside and very windy, troubled seas with breaking wave tops, boat action not uncomfortable.
24th Melbourne to do some shopping for items we didn’t want to carry on the plane. – A good opportunity to try uploading to the blog so if you are reading this, it worked.
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