Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
16 June 2024 - Off to Sydney for an overnight stay - seeing a show at the Opera House.
26 July 2024 - Sandy is making a quick trip to Brisbane for Dayboro State School's 150th anniversary.
19 August 2024 - Cruising from Sydney to Fremantle via Northern Australia - 18 days on the Coral Princess.
2 April 2025 - Cruise to Moreton Island on the Carnival Splendor.
10 October 2025 - Paul's 70th birthday - 3 day "Cruise to Nowhere" on the Pacific Explorer.
1 December 2025 - Cruise from Singapore to Brisbane on the Voyager of the Seas.

Monday 4 February 2013

New Zealand Cruise Day 5 - Auckland


As predicted - another lazy day.
I had a really bad night's sleep last night - for some reason the entire ship was vibrating and I found it to be really annoying; it took me hours to get to sleep.
Anyway, we arrived in port as expected and people were able to start leaving the ship at around 7am.  We wandered off at about 9am - avoiding both the breakfast rush and the 'get off the ship' rush.
I took a photo of the ship and I've added an arrow to show roughly where our cabin is - you might have to click on the picture to make it big enough to see the arrow.

The floor of our balcony is roughly level with the top of the lifeboat you can see in front of it, so although they call our cabin 'obstructed view' it isn't all that obstructed.
You can see from this photo that the weather is still glum and overcast, just like yesterday.  It didn't rain much at all though, and in fact the headlines on the newspapers are all about the 50 year drought that's apparently happening.
We didn't have a lot planned for today - we've been to Auckland a couple of times already.  I went and got a prepaid sim card for my phone, so I can use it for data (Facebook etc) while we're here.  We also picked up  couple of other bits and pieces then came back to the ship and - no doubt you'll all be incredibly surprised - lazed away the rest of the day!

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