Astounding Australia - Asia. Segment 5 of our World Voyage onboard the Azamara Onward. Sydney, Mooloolaba Queensland, Airlie Beach, Cairns, Alotao, Madang, Koror Palau, Manila Philippines, Hong Kong

Hello Vietnam. Touring Halong Bay, Hanoi, including the Hao Lo Prison, aka Hanoi Hilton et al. Also, more giant woodcuts.

Here’s my reading list from this section of our World Cruise 2024 onboard the Azamara Onward

Kiwis and Koalas - Segment 5 of our World Voyage onboard the Azamara Onward. Aukland, Tauranga (Hobbiton) Napier, Wellington, Picton, Christchurch, Dunedin, Milford Sound, Hobart Tasmania and Sydney.

Our original booking for this world tour was 133 days, and about 50 of those are at sea. That’s a lot of days floating on an ocean.

Mooloolaba. How did none of us know about this place?! It’s on the Sunshine Coast here in Queensland Australia. We hit the Wharf, do a canal cruise, visit the beach and enjoy a great meal at Rice Boi.

The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart. Amazing.

Yesterday morning we woke up in Hobart Tasmania. Our storm window was still in place, but Greg went up to deck nine and got some gorgeous photos of the sunrise, pretty enough to get me out of bed. It had been bumpy across the Tasman, but never truly uncomfortable for us. We’re grateful for our sailor stomachs. Time to head out Kayaking.

We are in six meter seas at the moment. Not six feet, six meters. I’ll do the math for you; that’s 20 feet from top to trough on these big rollers. And they don’t just roll. They shift and bang and spin too. Someone came in yesterday and covered our window with a storm shutter. So now our deck 4 stateroom has become an inside cabin set atop a 20 foot roller coaster where it will ride for about 36 hours before it can get off.

Here’s my reading list from this section of our World Cruise 2024 onboard the Azamara Onward

Next stop on our Azamara Onward World Voyage -Visiting Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island. It is still inhabited by the descendants of the original mutineers of the Bounty! We toured Adamstown, saw Christian Cave, visited the museum and took pics with the original anchor of the Bounty. Current read: Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne

Next stop on our Azamara Onward World Cruise - Easter island, or Rapa Nui, to see the Moai statues! We rented scooters, visited Anakena Beach, did a tour of the volcanic crater at Rano Raraku, Tongariki, Anakena Beach and Ahu Nau Nau.

Here’s my reading list from this section of our World Cruise 2024 onboard the Azamara Onward

These are the tools you’ll need to start a watercolour sketchbook journal

My reading list from this segment of our Wold Voyage onboard the Azamara Onward

Next stop on our Azamara Onward World Cruise - The Panama Canal! We transit, visit the Miraflores Locks, tour the city by night and again in the day. Fascinating experience all around!

Next stop on our Azamara Onward World Cruise - Puerto Limon Costa Rica. We toured Puerto Viejo, Coco Beach and Cahuita National Park Rainforest.

Azamara World Voyage 2024 Begins! - Ft Lauderdale to Cozumel

Read Before You Go: French Polynesia “I Am Not Your Eve” by Devika Ponnambalam. The story of Teha’Amana, child bride and muse of Painter Paul Gauguin in Tahiti

Each guitar is its own story. The Martin Backpacker here prompted a celebrity encounter. If you know me you just got way better at that Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game.