Bon voyage - Dawn Princess 75 day Pacific Circle cruise.....

[Gaznjo]

Well it is a little late but this is my first chance to post since they left......

 

Our week started with the anticipation of a gathering 2011 Crazy Cruisers at out house.... We were looking forward to housing a couple of CC friends from New Zealand when they arrived on Thursday ready for their cruise on Friday. What they didn't know was that more CCers from our 2011 world cruise were also flying in from Queensland to surprise them..... On Thursday night there was a gathering of 10 cruisers which was just great...

 

On Friday we headed down to wharf 5 to get our kiwi friends all checked in only to be astounded by the reunion this ended up being. As you looked around the big white tent there were familiar faces everywhere..... Our table up the back grew bigger and bigger .... If I wasn't envious before I was now.......

 

You can imagine how hard it was to wave off all our friends as they boarded with out me.... I was contemplating if I could copy that young English boy who attached himself to another family and got himself onto a flight to Italy....

 

Since we were down there we decided to hang around for sail away.... How tragic is it that you can recognise the cruise directors and the head pursers voice as they made their announcements...... We could have cried when Warren welcomed everyone aboard especially all those back on board from the 2011 WC........ So from down on the wharf we watched as she turned and then steamed her way towards the harbour bridge......

 

Alas it was back home for us to cook and serve our own dinner.....

 

I have got photos which I will post tomorrow but I am just too cold to venture down to the study......

 

I know they will have a wonderful trip......

[Gaznjo]

There is a blog for this cruise

 

http://cruisinpacific.blogspot.com.au/

[Kiwi Kruzer]

Thats some itinerary.

Wonder how many are doing the whole 75 days?

 

Date Port Arrive Depart

Fri 27/07/12 Sydney / Australia 16:00

Sat 28/07/12 At Sea

Sun 29/07/12 At Sea

Mon 30/07/12 At Sea

Tue 31/07/12 At Sea

Wed 01/08/12 At Sea

Thu 02/08/12 Darwin / Australia 08:00 17:00

Fri 03/08/12 At Sea

Sat 04/08/12 At Sea

Sun 05/08/12 At Sea

Mon 06/08/12 At Sea

Tue 07/08/12 Singapore / Singapore 08:00 18:00

Wed 08/08/12 At Sea

Thu 09/08/12 Koh Samui / Thailand 08:00 17:00

Fri 10/08/12 Laem Chabang / Thailand 07:00 19:00

Sat 11/08/12 At Sea

Sun 12/08/12 Phu My / Vietnam 07:00 18:00

Mon 13/08/12 Nha Trang / Vietnam 08:00 17:00

Tue 14/08/12 At Sea

Wed 15/08/12 Hong Kong / China 08:00 23:00

Thu 16/08/12 At Sea

Fri 17/08/12 At Sea

Sat 18/08/12 Shanghai / China 07:00 18:00

Sun 19/08/12 At Sea

Mon 20/08/12 At Sea

Tue 21/08/12 Tianjin / China 04:00 19:00

Wed 22/08/12 At Sea

Thu 23/08/12 Busan / South Korea 12:00 18:00

Fri 24/08/12 At Sea

Sat 25/08/12 Vladivostok / Russia 05:30 19:00

Sun 26/08/12 At Sea

Mon 27/08/12 At Sea

Tue 28/08/12 Yokohama / Japan 06:00 18:00

Wed 29/08/12 At Sea

Thu 30/08/12 Date Line 12:00 13:00

Fri 31/08/12 At Sea

Sat 01/09/12 At Sea

Sun 02/09/12 At Sea

Mon 03/09/12 At Sea

Tue 04/09/12 Seward (Alaska) / USA 08:00 20:00

Wed 05/09/12 Hubbard Glacier (cruising) / USA 13:00 18:00

Thu 06/09/12 Sitka (Alaska) / USA 08:00 18:00

Fri 07/09/12 Juneau (Alaska) / USA 08:00 18:00

Sat 08/09/12 Glacier Bay/Alaska (Passage) / USA 06:00 15:00

Sun 09/09/12 At Sea

Mon 10/09/12 Vancouver / Canada 13:00 23:00

Tue 11/09/12 Victoria B.C. / Canada 07:00 13:00

Wed 12/09/12 At Sea

Thu 13/09/12 San Francisco / USA 07:00 19:00

Fri 14/09/12 At Sea

Sat 15/09/12 At Sea

Sun 16/09/12 At Sea

Mon 17/09/12 At Sea

Tue 18/09/12 Lahaina (Maui, Hawaii) / USA 08:00 18:00

Wed 19/09/12 Nawiliwili (Kauai, Hawaii) / USA 08:00 17:00

Thu 20/09/12 Honolulu (Oahu, Hawaii) / USA 07:00 22:00

Fri 21/09/12 Hilo (Hawaii) / USA 10:00 18:00

Sat 22/09/12 At Sea

Sun 23/09/12 At Sea

Mon 24/09/12 At Sea

Tue 25/09/12 At Sea

Wed 26/09/12 At Sea

Thu 27/09/12 Papeete (Tahiti) / French Polynesia 08:00 21:00

Fri 28/09/12 Bora Bora / French Polynesia 08:00 18:00

Sat 29/09/12 At Sea

Sun 30/09/12 At Sea

Mon 01/10/12 Date Line 12:00 13:00

Tue 02/10/12 Apia (Samoa-i-Sisifo) / South Seas 08:00 17:00

Wed 03/10/12 At Sea

Thu 04/10/12 At Sea

Fri 05/10/12 At Sea

Sat 06/10/12 Auckland / New Zealand 07:00 20:00

Sun 07/10/12 Bay of Islands / New Zealand 07:00 16:00

Mon 08/10/12 At Sea

Tue 09/10/12 At Sea

Wed 10/10/12 Sydney / Australia 07:00

 

Traveled Distance: 47,240.09 km/25,507.61 nm

[Sandielle]

Happy cruising everyone. This would be an awesome cruise. :)

[kiwipete]

Bon Voyage

for your 2012 Circle Pacific Cruise on board Dawn Princess

all you CC'ers.

 

May the swell rise to greet you

May the wind be always at your back

The sun shine warm upon your face

Any rains fall soft upon your decks

And until we meet again,

Have a bl---y great time

 

 

 

Kiwipete and Norma

 

See you in San Francisco!

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[erewhon]

Bon Voyage Everyone.

[erewhon]

There is a blog for this cruise

 

http://cruisinpacific.blogspot.com.au/

 

Thanks for posting the link to this blog.

[Raison]

Looks like a great cruise, fab itinerary, geez the bucket list is growing!

Hope all the passengers have a great time and don't let the little things that will happen spoil their enjoyment (or the enjoyment of those around them;))

[Gaznjo]

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can't believe that we spotted our friends on deck as they salied away.... we had to take the picture and zoom in to be sure...

[Kiwi_cruiser]

Great photo packetau!

[Gaznjo]

had a short email today from our friends currently on the Dawn Princess... made us sooooo jealous.... here is a part I thought I would share...

 

"Life on board is fabulous, we know so many people from the world cruise, which makes it a happy place. We're going through the Torres strait as I write, got quite close to land too earlier on.

The sea so far has been calm, long may it last. Having 5 days at sea at the beginning is a great way to relax and get into the cruising mode.

Too many late night though, tonight I'm going to try and get to bed before midnight!

Seen a couple of good shows, last night it was Pearson and Harvey, a couple of Aussie comedians, very funny.

The food as usual is great and plentiful, just had smoked salmon for breakfast,and other scrumtious things, I probably won't have lunch, pigs might fly!!

Must dash, lots to do as you know, oh! so stressful."

:D:D:D:D

[erewhon]

had a short email today from our friends currently on the Dawn Princess... made us sooooo jealous.... here is a part I thought I would share...

 

"Life on board is fabulous, we know so many people from the world cruise, which makes it a happy place. We're going through the Torres strait as I write, got quite close to land too earlier on.

 

The sea so far has been calm, long may it last. Having 5 days at sea at the beginning is a great way to relax and get into the cruising mode.

Too many late night though, tonight I'm going to try and get to bed before midnight!

 

Seen a couple of good shows, last night it was Pearson and Harvey, a couple of Aussie comedians, very funny.

 

The food as usual is great and plentiful, just had smoked salmon for breakfast,and other scrumtious things, I probably won't have lunch, pigs might fly!!

 

Must dash, lots to do as you know, oh! so stressful."

 

:D:D:D:D

 

Thank you for posting this update.

[Sandielle]

Seems to have taken forever, but they are finally at Darwin.

 

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[Kiwi Kruzer]

Thats one heck of a long way without a stop:eek:

 

[happyaussies]

Bon Voyage Everyone.

[Gaznjo]

5 days a long time but what a way to start a long cruise.... I would say they would be very mellow by the time darwin came along.... Watch out coles..... a ship is in town!!

[Kiwi_cruiser]

5 days a long time but what a way to start a long cruise....

 

I guess if you booked this cruise you would not mind the sea days!!, Look how many sea days they have!!! :eek:

[Sandielle]

I guess if you booked this cruise you would not mind the sea days!!, Look how many sea days they have!!! :eek:

 

DH and I just love the sea days. They're very relaxing and leave plenty of time for just lying about and reading. :)

[Kiwi_cruiser]

Singapore Today:

 

 

DAWN PRINCESS at ShipWatcher

[Sandielle]

Don't know what happened to your webcam take Kiwi C, but I can't see it or get it from the link.

 

I'm wondering if they are having awful weather or the cam lens has a deep grey tint! :D:D:D

 

[Kiwi_cruiser]

Don't know what happened to your webcam take Kiwi C, but I can't see it or get it from the link.

 

ShipWatcher moved servers (See FB), so your ISP may have not updated there dns servers yet, so that might be way you cant see my capture.

 

I'm wondering if they are having awful weather or the cam lens has a deep grey tint! :D:D:D

 

I think the webcam is in a need of a clean!!!

 

 

You know that's the wrong ship ;)

[Sandielle]

ShipWatcher moved servers (See FB), so your ISP may have not updated there dns servers yet, so that might be way you cant see my capture.

 

Oh, have they? I haven't been on FB much lately. :rolleyes:

[Gaznjo]

I can't see any of your captures either