On our sail out of Newcastle yesterday we were given a three gun salute by the volunteers who run and maintain the fort. It was a nice touch which went down really well.
Before dinner last night we paid a visit to the theatre to watch a young Kiwi singer called Will Martin and what a good move that turned out to be. He had a fantastic voice and was probably the best singer I’ve ever heard on a ship. If the weather is still bad tomorrow afternoon he is doing a matinee show so we will probably go and see him again.
BTW, for dessert last night there was a special option which was a chocolate something or other and was to commemorate the Edge revealing. Centre place was a bar of chocolate with the Edge logo embossed into it. Shame I never took my camera as it might have given me a photo to post today. It’s very short on the ground today so there are just a couple of weather related shots from earlier this morning. The one and only photo I have been able to upload is the view from our breakfast table. The WordPress app has developed a bug so currently isn’t letting me upload any more photos. I hope it fixes itself soon!!!
The ship feels more like it did on the first cruise which is really great. There seems to be a lot more older passengers this cruise and the dining room seems to be about 70% full.
The weather on the other hand isn’t exactly what we were anticipating and it rained heavily throughout the night and continued through the morning. At times visibility was poor and there was little chance of even going for a walk out on the open decks.
We did seize an opportunity about 11:00 and managed about 1½ laps before the drizzle started again. Not wanting to sit inside we found a couple of beds undercover on the pool deck and just dozed until dinner which we took in the MDR.
Really that is exciting as it got today, we spent the afternoon just dozing in the cabin until it was time to go to the Sky Lounge at 5:00.
I had always anticipated the two sea days going up to Queensland would be lovely and sunny but we just seem to have been unlucky this trip.