by The Inside Cabin | Feb 17, 2018 | Knitting, 2018 Grand World Voyage, Austrailia, Oceania, Adelaide, South Australia
Day 44, 17 Feb – Adelaide, South Australia Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia with a population of over 1 million people. Our tendering days are over, and it was nice to be moored to a...
by The Inside Cabin | Feb 13, 2018 | Hobart, Tasmania, Knitting, 2018 Grand World Voyage, Austrailia, Oceania
Day 40, 13 Feb – Hobart Tasmania Hobart is about as far south of the equator as Detroit is north. To further calibrate your climate thinking Feb 13 is equivalent to August 13 in the northern hemisphere. Hobart reminded me of Annapolis, Maryland or maybe a...
by The Inside Cabin | Feb 10, 2018 | Sydney, Oceania, Knitting, 2018 Grand World Voyage, Austrailia
Day 37, Sydney, Australia – 10 February 2018 We cruised thru scenic Sydney Harbor very early this morning. By the time I made it to the bow, we had already passed the Opera House and were beyond the Sydney Harbor Bridge headed toward our berth at White Bay...
by The Inside Cabin | Feb 6, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, New Zealand, Oceania, Port Chalmers (Dunedin), Knitting
Day 33, Port Chalmers, Dunedin Our arrival was delayed into Port Chalmers this morning due to high winds. Another cruise ship, the Norwegian Jewel, was in the channel ahead of us and Captain Jonathan wanted to stay clear of the channel until the Jewel’s mooring was...
by The Inside Cabin | Feb 3, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, New Zealand, Oceania, Tauranga (Rotorua), Knitting
Day 30 – Tauranga – 3 Feb 2018 Arrive Tauranga Blue skies greeted us as we arrived in Tauranga around 8 AM. The ship docked in the small beach resort town called Mount Maunganui which used to be a separate city, but in 1989 was combined with Tauranga which is now the...
by The Inside Cabin | Feb 2, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, New Zealand, Auckland, Oceania, Knitting
Day 29, Feb 2nd, Auckland, NZ The ship was cleared by 8 am but since we were staying until 8pm we weren’t in any hurry to get ashore. We left the ship around noon. The weather today was perfect. We learned later that the weather yesterday was horrible, so our...
