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February 14, 2025 Happy Valentine’s Day Today we are anchored at Moreton Island. This is an island +/- 10 miles off the coast near the City of Brisbane. The island is mainly a get-away island for the Aussie’s to go camping. There are limited Services like restaurants and hotels. The main activities are snorkeling, hikingContinue reading “Moreton Island Aus.”

February 12, 2025 Good Morning readers. First of all on my last 2 posts, the month should be February and not January .(Thank you for pointing this out Cynthia) This morning we booked a short trip to Manly Beach. The bus took us through a variety of North Sydney suburbs before arriving at Manly. TheContinue reading “Sydney, Australia”

January 11, 2025 When I woke up this morning we  were already docked at White Bay in Sydney. We had breakfast on the back deck and at the same time enjoying the view of the harbour and the City. For this morning we had a day tour booked to the Blue Mountains. Before we couldContinue reading “Sydney, Australia”

January 7, 2025 After a rough day at sea we arrived this morning in Noumea. When I say rough day, it wasn’t really that bad. We  had approximately 10ft waves, that was a little more intense then we had so far on our voyage. After the ship’s staff had posted ” barf bags” all overContinue reading “Noumea, New Caledonia”

February 5, 2025 Today we make a visit to the kingdom of Tonga. Tonga was first visited by Abel Tasman in 1643. Yes, the same guy who discovered New Zealand.  Tonga consists of 170 Island with a population of approximately 105,000. Today we are docked at the largest Island Tongapatu in the capital city ofContinue reading “Tonga”

February 1th, 2025 Today’s stop is the Island of Ratotonga, the largest of the 15 islands that form the nation of the Cook Islands. In 1901 the UK government made the Cook Islands part of New Zealand. In 1965 New Zealand granted the Cook Islands self-governing status. The total population today is approximately 14,000, withContinue reading “Rarotonga, Cook Islands”

January 28, 29, 2025 First of all a correction to my write up about Pitcairn Island. One of my readers pointed out that from the 43 people who live on the island,  35 of them are direct descendants from the Bounty Muteneers and 8 are not. Thank You. This morning we made a stop inContinue reading “Papeete, Tahiti”

January 30, 2025 An early morning today. Carol was in a considerable amount of pain when she awoke this morning. We had arranged for the Taxi to pick us up and take us to the airport. After we arrived at the airport, it took a while before we boarded our Air Tahiti plane to Raiatea,Continue reading “Raiatea, French Polynesia”

January 25, 2025 Today we met up with the people from Pitcairn. Pitcairn, mostly known from the mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Numerous books have been written and movies have been made about this event. In 1789 Fletcher Adams took control of the HMS Bounty and burned the ship on the shores of the Island.Continue reading “Pitcairn Island”

January 22 2025 (day 2) Good Morning readers! Another morning waking up outside Easter Island. My first action of the day was to look out the window and check the height of the swell. The swells didn’t seem to be worse than yesterday. For today I managed to get a spot on another tour onContinue reading “Easter Island”