I realise that my day count has been a little out so hopefully I have corrected it today. This morning dawned dull and overcast with a very high humidity of 80%; this means that every time I go out on deck from an air-conditioned environment my glasses steam up. Also I have to open the camera up for some minutes before it is usable.
No matter we have had a great day today, it might seem a little tedious to those of you reading from afar, but we have really enjoyed it. After a leisurely breakfast and an additional coffee we attended a lecture about Indonesia, Knowing nothing about this country it was very informative. From end to end if superimposed on the US it would stretch from Portland to three hundred miles off the coast of Maine, it has 22% of the world’s active volcanoes, and the temples dating from the tenth century are spectacular. The lecturer by coincidence had graduated in geography from the same university as myself albeit ten years earlier. I shall have to look into getting one of these gigs on a cruise ship!!!
Then it was trivia, we were off form today, do any of my readers know what the Dutch navy gave to sailors to prevent scurvy?
This afternoon we spent on deck as we navigated through the reefs and islands at the tip of Cape York, in the extreme North East of Australia. This is an area that is not visited much, there are no roads and few cruise ships follow this route. Combined with the storm-laden skies this was very beautiful. The experts on deck were able to identify our exact position as well as the many bird species that surrounded the ship.
This evening we have had a lovely dinner; it was a chef’s presentation of six delicious courses with beautiful well balance food. This was rounded off by a game of Scrabble. Another question for my reader(s), would you allow “strim”?
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