Another quiet day, but I got caught out a bit today. Usually after a couple of days at sea I've become accustomed to the movement of the ship, but the first couple of days of this cruise were very, very calm. So today, I ended up being affected by the ship movement a bit. Problem solved though - I took a Travacalm before lunch and had a snooze afterwards, and I was pretty much OK by dinner time. It was quiet in the dining room this evening, so I suspect I wasn't the only one caught out.
As usual for us on a cruise, we have been playing in the Casino once or twice a day. Current status is "losing money quite slowly" which is more than you can ask for really.
Late update: at lunchtime today we heard two separate medical emergency calls, only a few minutes apart, to two completely separate parts of the ship. It turns out that one of the people involved is sick enough / injured enough to need to be evacuated from the ship. So, instead of heading basically south towards Perth as planned, we're now heading east towards Exmouth, and apparently at 6am tomorrow there will be an emergency helicopter evacuation from the ship. Based on the online displays here, it looks like this is going to take us about 500km off course, and so it's no surprise that the captain has announced that we will be very late arriving in Perth. We were due to be there at 8am on Thursday but he's now estimating early afternoon. We were due to leave at 5pm but that won't allow time for any sort of off-ship tours; the captain says he's trying to extend our stay but right now he doesn't know if that will be possible, or for how long.
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