As I'm writing this, there are seven "upcoming cruises" showing on the page.
This time last year I'd have been astounded at the thought that I'd be standing here typing away about how few of these cruises I think will go ahead. But, at this point, I think that five of them are already lost causes - the only two I really hold out any hope for are the ones in 2023.
Adam's eclipse cruise has an interesting story. If you know Adam, you'll know that in the past he has travelled to Cairns, China and the USA to see eclipses. The next even vaguely accessible one crosses a tiny piece of Australia near Exmouth in April 2023. At first Adam was hoping to simply go there, but he realised quite quickly - and the people of Exmouth have started talking about this too - that there simply isn't the infrastructure there to support a stack of people visiting to view the eclipse. Add to that the fact that Adam can't drive, so staying a long distance away and driving there on the day really isn't an option either. So, since most of the totality occurs over the ocean, Adam asked me to check to see if anyone was running a cruise to see it and I really shouldn't have been surprised to see that P&O has one all planned - the cruise lines like to do this because they can charge more and they know lots of people will be interested. Adam suggested that Paul and or myself might like to come too, but we soon realised that we're already on a cruise at that time - different ship though. However, then we realised that our itinerary has us in that part of the ocean at the time of the eclipse. So we're hoping that although it's not specifically being advertised as an eclipse cruise, they may well be planning for our ship to be somewhere under the totality zone too!
