Blogs from Pacific, Oceans and Seas - page 35

Sea Day, Tasman Sea - December 14th - 12:11am Well today didn’t start out much different from yesterday. Read a bit, waited for Lee to finish work so we could grab some food upstairs. We grabbed some grub and came back to relax. We watched some Amazing Race and took a nap. Lee was still sleeping but I figured I’d get up to the gym since I wouldn’t be able to get there for the next 2 days. Lee decided to tell me what my surprise excursion was. We are going on the overnight tour ‘Explore Overnight Milford Sound to Dunedin’. We drove to the inland of New Zealand’s sound island, over night in Queenstown, see a sheep dog in action and sheep shearing demonstration, the next day heading back to Dunedin. I’m very excited to ... read more

We Leave tomorrow. Boo Hoo. Very tired from a lot of walking the past 3 days. Climbed the Diamond Head Crater. 271 steps,long winding trails, steep spiral cases, tunnels, bunkers. We Did It.... read more

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Rahnee's in town from Sydney.....working on some project, but with time enough to join a 5 night cruise with me around Vietnam, Sanya (in china) and Hongkong. We took an early flight to Singapore where we were met by our travel agent who then took us to the pier to board our boat. MV Virgo is a huge cruise liner, the biggest in the fleet run by the same group who owns the Genting Resorts. I have long been curious about this cruise liner which offers 2 night to week long cruises around Asia. There was one I particularly liked which sails to Phuket, Langkawi Island, etc. But instead, we are joining this cruise which sails out of Singapore and calls on Ho Chi Minh, Sanya and Hongkong. The package we got allows for another night's ... read more

Hi everyone this is the first time I have used this blog but am quite excited about that as to what will actually happen- anyways we have just got back from an 11 day cruise on Rhapsody of the Sea of Royal Caribbean LInes- or Caribbbbean as the americans call it- to Hamilton Island, Cairns, Port Douglas, Cooktown and back to Sydney. Interesting cruise- Royal Caribbean were quite good but wouldn't rave about them- everytime you turned around they were charging you extra- the shore excursions were outragously expensive and the crew didn't know much about anything to do with Australia unfortunately. On the positive side the ship is really quite impressive- we had a junior suite which was good- the cabin crew and waiters are attentive and the nightly entertainment was quite good.. Anyway wouldn't ... read more