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Hello again! I'm now in Melbourne, my time in Brisbane has come and gone and things went very well. I spent a few days sight seeing and a few days offroading and camping on Fraser Island. After my friend Mel left for Sydney I was staying in a hostel right in the thick of downtown in Brisbane. It turned out to be quite an awesome place, and asides from the obvious smell of BO it was in a perfect location and I had some awesome roomies. Brisbane is right on a large river, aptly named the same as the city and therefore has a lot of shoreline. Because there is no beach though there is a fake lagoon with nice clean water in an area called South Bank, free to use and with a wonderful view ... read more

Hello Hello! Pardon my lack of updates and ignore your frustration to those who I promised an update a couple of week ago because an update this is. That being said, life isn’t as interesting as it was as a cadet and there’s only so much interest I can talk about. The last month I spent most of my time on the night watch, this had me being on the bridge from just after midnight to 830 in the morning. After watch I’d do the rest of my work and I was generally finished by noon. This was convenient for going ashore if I managed to make it to bed at a decent time and do it all over again. I managed to make it ashore a couple times too! I’m now on the evening watch ... read more

You work all day every day, spend a few hours ashore once in a while, and the next thing you know another month has gone by! The last month has been one of the more interesting onboard actually. A week after my last blog update was Halloween. Now being onboard this ship was surprisingly interesting. The creativity of the crew was astounding, and the guest participation was amazing. The promenade deck was packed with a few thousand costumed guests all dancing to the monster mash right up until Thriller started playing… This caused nearly 50 crew members all zombified to appear out of what seemed like thin air and then be joined by the cruise director filling in for Michael Jackson. Seeing 50 crew members all do the Thriller dance amongst a promenade covered in spider ... read more

Where to start, where to start… It’s been nearly a month since I’ve posted a blog and I’m still finding it hard to have an interesting posting. But here goes It seems like every other week there is a tropical disturbance that we end up having to avoid, even last week we did a backwards cruise so that a storm would pass by us. This week is looking perfect, but next week might be yet another reroute. Because we did a backward cruise, we were in Nassau at a completely different time of day as we usually are. This meant that instead of showing up at 6 in the morning, having a drill, and then leaving at 2 pm. We arrived at 1pm and left that evening at 7. This allowed me to go to the ... read more