Saturday 28th February - Beautiful warm morning, clear skies and calm seas, we awoke around 05.00am and went up for an early morning coffee and a muffin. Walked 11 times around the exercise track (1 mile) then went back down to the cabin for our 07.30am room service breakfast delivery. Karla (picture left), our usual room service delivery person since Michael left, wasn’t on duty this morning and breakfast was delivered by a new girl, Exxy. We also met our new room steward this morning, don’t know what happened to Chonpat, our new guy seems much more confident, Montano is his name. He said Chonpat had been transferred to another area, hope he’s alright, he always looked so sad, it was his first contract and I think he missed his family. We played our usual trivia game with Harry & Bob and Shell & Bill, before lunch, lost as usual, didn’t have any lunch and just lazed about the deck ’til dinner time. Watched the ‘big’ production singing and dancing show, they tried, but were lacklustre as usual.
Sunday 1st March - We are travelling in the deep channel between the Great Barrier reef and mainland Australia. Early this morning we passed the long string of the Whitsunday Islands on the port side. It was very hot and humid with calm seas and after breakfast I took to the pool, the water was warm, but cooler than the surrounding air and it was a relief to float easily in its’ salty depths. Many more ships to be seen in these waters and we passed several freighters and small islands on both sides. I spoke, for a while, to some of the tradesmen brought on board to convert the captains lounge into two separate cabins for officers, unfortunately someone had forgotten to order the special toilet fitments required for the conversion and it’s debatable whether they will be able to complete the job by the time they’re due to leave in Guam. Before lunch, I attended part of a lecture on ‘The Great Barrier Reef’ by Marylou Blakeslee, it focused on coral and fish life on the reef. While in the pool this morning I arranged with Bill and Shelley to join them on a catamaran trip to Green Island when we docked in Cairns tomorrow so we decide to book the tickets online as we were concerned about availability. Booking was relatively easy, printing the voucher proved to be a little more difficult and occupied about an hour of the early afternoon. The rest of the afternoon I caught up on reading my latest book ‘Blood and Thunder’ the true account of events in the early exploration of the American west.
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