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Fiji

April 19, 2025 Vanua Balavu Island After a day at sea, we came into the Islands of Fiji.  There are over 500 Islands in the group.  We have entered an area called Melanesia.  We will island hop our way over to Papua New Guinea, then down to Darwin, Australia...

Samoa and Tonga

Sailing into paridise It's April 16, 2025 Samoa, locally pronounced Saam-ooh-ah. This is the first stop that we have duplicated on last years cruise.  We did the Island tour and Kim complained that she didn't have time to climb to the tomb of Robert Lewis Stevenson.  ...

Paradise

Tonight, we had dinner with the expedition photographer.  He stated again that we were in an area that almost no one had seen on a cruise ship, including him.  We are going where cruise ships have seldom been.  Even the captain has never been...
Things are heating up

Things are heating up

February 26,2024 Cairns AU. Well, I finally have complaints about our Seabourn Cruise.  As you know, they have been out of IPA for most of the trip.  Now, they have run out of Buffalo Trace, and today, it was too hot to sit on the pool deck.  They just...

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Sailing, Sailing

Sailing, Sailing

February 25, 2024 Townsville, Au Who would name their town Townsville?  Odd, don’t you think? Well, tonight we did something we have never done before on a cruise ship.  Cruise ships have food available to you pretty much 24/7, and it’s free (included in the fair...

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Romance on the high seas

Romance on the high seas

February 22, 2024 Tonight, we decided to eat in the restaurant. The menu was great. But, at the last minute I asked Kim if she would rather have dinner brought to our room and eat on the veranda. Good idea, she said.  So, I ordered dinner, and it showed up about...

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Uncharted waters

Uncharted waters

February 22, 2024 Hello from Queensland, AU.  This is our 43rd day aboard the Sojourn, and so far, we are having the time of our lives.  Except for the two stops in Samoa and the stop in Tonga, we have been to every port prior to this trip.   Well, now...

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Big day on the ship

Big day on the ship

February 20, 2024 I was actually concerned that today would be boring and I wouldn’t have anything to write about.  Well, wrong, I’m on a cruise ship with lots of people who like to talk.  As I said yesterday, today about 200 new guests came aboard, it was...

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Storm, at Dock

Storm, at Dock

February 19,2024 Sidney Australia So, Australia is at the top of my shit list today.  For some reason, they made us all get off the ship at 7:30 this morning, so we could sit around and wait for 2 hours before reboarding.  Some immigration thing, I...

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