08 March 2015 | More pics
Ashore
19 March 2015
Patsy buying squid which incidently were delicious
Kobe
19 March 2015
And the band played us in
More Rabaul
18 March 2015
More pics from Rabaul
08 March 2015 | Cairns
Spent ages wandering around looking for places we had visited 11 Years ago but all are gone. Gone were the fantastic Noodle bars in the Pier which used to be heaving with people eating every kind of Asian dish you could think of. Now it's all been replaced by very expensive shops and is a bit of a ghost town compared to all those years ago.
On route to Cairns
08 March 2015
Aboard Queen Elizabeth
Sat 7th March
Formal dress night and cocktails with the captain along with about 50 others in a queue to meet the captain and have a picture taken!! It was great to meet Inga again who recognised us straight away, so we held everybody up chatting about how the family were doing :).
Sunday 8th March about 680 miles from Brisbane traveling at 11 knts parallel to the Barrier reef to Cairns. Temperature outside is hot hot hot!
Got back from lunch today to find an invite to have dinner with the captain on Tuesday evening.... P blown away.
We get into Cairns early on Monday morning where we will anchor off Yorkeys Knob a small town about 5nm North West of Cairns.
We haven't booked any excursions for Cairns as it's our second visit but we will take a tender to the shore to have a walkabout. Turns out we get priority access to the tender.
The extra privaliges this upgrade has given us just keep coming, spent afternoon on private top deck being fed ice cream, juice and then cold flannels. Unfortunatley never to be repeated unless we are lucky enough to get another upgrade in the future.
On our way to Yorkies Knob Cairns
07 March 2015
Just passing through the Whitsunday Islands saw the Queen Mary anchored off of one of the inlets.
After we leave Cairns we are on our way to Rabaul Papua New Guinea and have a tour amongst the volcanoes booked.
Will update if I find some free wifi in cairns
On board
07 March 2015
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On board
07 March 2015
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On board Queen Elizabeth
07 March 2015 | Brisbane
Aboard Queen Elizabeth
Amazing room, has more storage than our house! Fresh fruit everyday, complimentary 2 x 1 litre bottle of spirits our choice. Fridge stocked daily with soft drinks, beer etc.
As we are are now upgraded to the Queens Grill, only accessed privately by are room card, we were rather taken aback on our first visit to the Grill to be greeted by the Maitre d' who knew who we were by name?
We are on a table of 8 populated by, I should think multi millionaires, so we are well at home there then! :)
Currumbin
07 March 2015
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Currumbin
07 March 2015
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Yep! finished packing
22 February 2015
Had to leave a few things out but thankfully Dave's got a big car.
On the countdown
17 February 2015
Thinking of packing the suit cases do they take kitchen sinks for hand luggage?