Day 101 Thursday 20 April. At Muscat, Oman. Clear blue sky. 38ºC. Wind Force 2 from W. We entered Muscat at 0600 and the temperature on our balcony was already 35ºC and climbing. The port, Port Sultan Qaboose in the district of Muttrah, was very different from Dubai, being smaller and set in craggy hillsContinue reading “Blog 23. Return from Australia. Muscat and the Red Sea”
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Blog 22. Return from Australia. Dubai
BLOG 22 Day 96 Saturday 15 April. Sunny and hot. 30ºC. Sea, Slight. Arabian Sea on passage to Dubai. Position 15deg 56 N, 7deg 54E. Course 317, speed 18. Wind Force 2 from NW. Yet another relaxing day at sea. We drifted around after breakfast before attending the port lecture on Muscat, which we visitContinue reading “Blog 22. Return from Australia. Dubai”
Blog 21. Return from Australia. Port Kelang, Penang and Colombo
Day 90 Palm Sunday, 9 April. At Port Kelang, starboard side to. Clear skies, 37ºC. Light airs. After a good night’s sleep we were woken by a long blast of the ship’s siren. I looked at my watch: 0700 and a pale dawn was filtering past the curtains. Tottering onto the balcony, I saw thatContinue reading “Blog 21. Return from Australia. Port Kelang, Penang and Colombo”
Blog 20. Return from Australia. Singapore
Day 87 Thursday 6 April. Transit from Melbourne to Singapore. Sunny and 26ºC in Melbourne; humid and wet at 33ºC in Singapore. We rose at 0400 for departure to Melbourne Airport at 0500. Laura and Derek were kindly driving us there, but it can be a 90 minute journey and we were concerned that theContinue reading “Blog 20. Return from Australia. Singapore”
Blog 10. Australia. Adelaide and Geelong
Day 38 Thursday 16 February and we secured starboard side to in Port Adelaide (about 45 minutes from Adelaide) at 0900. It was warm and sunny, which has to be worth something. The queue to get off stretched once round the main circular lobby, along two long corridors and back to the main lobby again. Continue reading “Blog 10. Australia. Adelaide and Geelong”
Blog 9. Australia. Fremantle and Busselton
Day 34 Sunday 12 February and we are in Fremantle, Western Australia. The temperatures are back to ‘normal’, that is to say it made it up to 27ºC today, partially cloudy. It was a rum old passage across the Indian Ocean from Mauritius, as you will have gathered from the previous blogs: it wasContinue reading “Blog 9. Australia. Fremantle and Busselton”
Blog 8. Passage to Australia. Indian Ocean
Day 30 Wednesday 8 February dawns with a grey sky and a battleship grey sea flecked with catspaws. If I didn’t have the chart display in front of me I would have said we were off Flamborough Head on a Bank Holiday. It is 24ºC with wind Force 5. The journey continues (the sun didContinue reading “Blog 8. Passage to Australia. Indian Ocean”
Blog 7. Passage to Australia. La Réunion and Mauritius
Day 25 Friday 3 February and we are in France, or rather part of it: La Réunion. As mentioned in the last blog, we are in the port with the original name, Le Port. It is a very small commercial harbour (think Seaham Harbour with sunshine) which we only just managed to squeeze into andContinue reading “Blog 7. Passage to Australia. La Réunion and Mauritius”
Blog 6. Passage to Australia. Port Elizabeth
Day 20 Sunday 29 January at Port Elizabeth (PE), South Africa. The sun is shining, the air is hot, the sea is green. The official temperature is 23ºC but it feels much hotter in practice. We arrived at 0400, an event that we viewed in spirit from a horizontal position, and the brows were openContinue reading “Blog 6. Passage to Australia. Port Elizabeth”
Blog 5. Passage to Australia. Cape Town
Day 17 Thursday 26 January sees our arrival in Cape Town at 0630, with the sun just rising in the east (it would have been remarkable if it rose in the west) and casting its warm rays onto Table Mountain, with the city still in shadow. It was a most impressive sight. As usual, weContinue reading “Blog 5. Passage to Australia. Cape Town”
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