Noon Report:

• Location: S 22° 54.15′, E 152° 00.92′
• Speed: 14 knots
• Course: 316º
• Weather: Cloud cover
• Temperature: 26º C, 79º F
• Wind: ESE 19 knots

This will be the most boring post yet.

Up at the usual time. Cheryl continued to sleep off the effects of yesterday while i got up and hit the deck.

I arrived back and we threw 2 loads of laundry in before heading for breakfast.

After breakfast we returned to the stateroom to watch the first lecture “Exploring Our Oceans & Australasian Seas” on the stateroom TV while 1 of us moved the clothes to the dryer.

Shortly after the lecture the clothes came out and I brought them back for sorting/folding/hanging.

We were done well in time to head down to the Theatre for the lecture by our Reef Pilot; “Keeping the Reef Great.” He warned us that today’s topic was more serious than normal so he wouldn’t be expecting much laughter. Then he proceeded to make us feel comfortable with the topic which resulted in some measure of laughter at his very funny comments.

Then it was lunchtime.

This afternoon we had a choir rehearsal (the performance is Feb 26) and a 4:30 port talk on our destination for Wednesday – Cairns.

At 5:30 I had an appointment with the “Cruise Consultant” (future cruise guy) who helped me by taking my banking numbers and transferring money to make the final payment on our August cruise to Alaska. Check!

Then it was dinner and BBB (8/18).

After our humiliation at trivia we sat around and chatted for a bit before returning to our stateroom to get caught up on email and write this up.

Tomorrow we’re back on land (Arlie Beach in the Whitsunday Islands). The forecast is for rain, but at least it’s a tropical rain.

Till then, R