Around the world in Photos

grapau27 · April 5, 2021

1 minute ago, Bloodaxe said:

Adelaide is a lovely city Graham you need to spend time there, we have friends who live in the Barrossa Valley Wine Country not far away.

I would respectfully suggest that a cruise can never do Australia justice unless combined with land tours.

Thanks Eric.

Paulines cousin wants us to stay for a week in Adelaide at their home so they could show us Adelaide.

We planned on staying several nights in Sydney too.

Adawn47 · April 5, 2021

35 minutes ago, Izzywiz said:

Good morning posters and thank you Gettingwarmer for starting the thread which I have thoroughly enjoyed, not only because it made me look through my own pictures but also seeing those from the other posters. I don't mind continuing the 'Round the World. if no one else wants to take it on. My suggestion for tomorrow is the Cairns, Yorkey's Knob, Port Douglas area which are all cruise ship calls and quite close together....what do you think?

We visited Brisbane in 2011, not long after the dreadful floods that did tremendous damage to the area. We were very impressed with the speed of the recovery in the city. We caught the river cat from the dock to the city centre and then got the bus to the Lone Pine wild Life Refuge so again, we didn't see much of the city itself...

Thank you for taking on the rest of the cruise Isabel, your photos are always a delight. I can now carry on with my world cruise and keep dreaming.

Avril

Gettingwarmer · April 5, 2021

49 minutes ago, Izzywiz said:

I don't mind continuing the 'Round the World. if no one else wants to take it on. My suggestion for tomorrow is the Cairns, Yorkey's Knob, Port Douglas area which are all cruise ship calls and quite close together....what do you think?

Thank you for taking on continuing the cruise. I think that would be a great area to be at tomorrow.

purplesea · April 5, 2021

I am just staying on board with my cocktails and enjoying looking at all the photos of parts of the work that I havent visited, when you all return back on board after your day ashore 😊

Izzywiz · April 5, 2021

Thank you for your vote of confidence so our ports tomorrow are Cairns, Yorkey's Knob and Port Douglas in Queensland. They are all within 40 miles of each other. I hope lots of you come along for the ride😄😄

Aulanis · April 5, 2021

Thankyou Captain Gettingwarmer for steering us this far,
hopefully you have been promoted to Commodore, as
happened to one of our other captains while out these parts.
Thanks Captain Izzy for taking over at short notice I
thought there would have been more joining us but
maybe covid distancing on board has prevented it.
We had two days stay after our cruise, Loved Brisbane
and were to visit again last year 😞 . I have far too many
pics. Will do some of the city centre and see if I have time
later for some of the park and river taxi ride.

Note this Clock Tower

Note this Church

This is the church from the clock tower Looked like a toy

or gingerbread model.

zap99 · April 5, 2021

3 hours ago, Izzywiz said:

Thank you for your vote of confidence so our ports tomorrow are Cairns, Yorkey's Knob and Port Douglas in Queensland. They are all within 40 miles of each other. I hope lots of you come along for the ride😄😄

This is uncharted Territory for me, so I'll stay onboard and look at all the photos. DW may convince me ( tell me ) to go ashore, particularly if there is a big shopping mall.

Adawn47 · April 5, 2021

36 minutes ago, zap99 said:

This is uncharted Territory for me, so I'll stay onboard and look at all the photos. DW may convince me ( tell me ) to go ashore, particularly if there is a big shopping mall.

...that sells handbags. No excuse about OBC there zap.😁

Avril

zap99 · April 5, 2021

25 minutes ago, Adawn47 said:

...that sells handbags. No excuse about OBC there zap.😁

Avril

We seem to be on the way to the far East. Not been there, but I understand a good fake designer bag can be had for a few quid. Sounds good to me.🤣

Aulanis · April 5, 2021

No-one else? well here is the park first pic our hotel is behind the trees

in the first pic from there we can walk to the city centre. We had a ride on the

"toy"train as well it does a circuit takes about 20 mins. Token charge.

The waterfall is more impressive than it looks.

The top line reads something like the windmillis the oldest surviving structure in Queensland.

First working in 1828.

Aulanis · April 5, 2021

And trip on the river taxi

^ ^^^^^^ No Idea what these were vvvvvvvvvv

Edited April 5, 2021 by Aulanis

Gettingwarmer · April 5, 2021

48 minutes ago, Aulanis said:

The waterfall is more impressive than it looks.

Yes we have a movie version and love the noise and flowing water. Loved this area of Brisbane.

Ardennais · April 5, 2021

So glad that Izzy has volunteered to continue and a big thank you to Gettingwarmer for guiding us thus far. The photos have been a joy.

Gettingwarmer · April 5, 2021

Thanks for all your kind words and l am very happy to see the voyage continue under Izzy’s direction.

Izzywiz · April 6, 2021

Good morning cruisers, Queensland today and then heading north. I hope you don't mind but I'm going to open up the areas a little more because there are often ports close together which offer wonderful photo opportunities. Bearing that in mind, tomorrow we are visiting Komodo Island and Bali. Please feel free to add pictures from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia as well.

Here are my Queensland pictures. We visited Port Douglas in 2011 and did a boat trip out to the great barrier Reef in cold and rainy weather. Fortunately, the sun came out as we reached the island but it was still too cold to swim...

We visited again in 2019 on part of our pre-cruise stay in Cairns and this time the weather was hot and wet...

Izzywiz · April 6, 2021

In 2019 we stayed in an apartment for a week just outside Cairns which we used as a base to visit several places. The beaches were beautiful but swimming was restricted to caged areas because of the danger from sharks and crocs!!

We did the Kuranda heritage train ride up into the hills....

and a boat trip to Green Island to see a bit more of the Great Barrier Reef..

Izzywiz · April 6, 2021

We drove up to the Daintree River....

and stopped at the Mossman Gorge on the way back...

We spent a lot of time at the Cairns Botanical Gardens...

Izzywiz · April 6, 2021

Cairns port is used by the smaller cruise ships so the larger ones anchor off shore at either Port Douglas or Yorkey's Knob and tender passengers in. There isn't a lot to see at Yorkey's Knob but it is quite close to Cairns...

We didn't spend much time in Cairns itself although it is a nice , clean small city..

Aulanis · April 6, 2021

We have been to Cairns & Yorkys Knob & green Island pre digital,

visited that area again so a few pictures of Cairns and some of Darwen.

Edited April 6, 2021 by Aulanis

Aulanis · April 6, 2021

And Darwin - Sorry to those hoping for exciting pictures of Darwen 😉

Izzywiz · April 7, 2021

It's cold and frosty here this morning so it was lovely to see the pictures of hot and steamy Darwin.

Today we are visiting Komodo Island and Bali plus anywhere on the way north from Australia to Bali.

Tomorrow we dock in Hong Kong and the surrounding areas.

The Komodo Dragons were BIG!!!!

Izzywiz · April 7, 2021

Bali was one of the first 'exotic' places that we visited in the 1990s when we did a hotel stay for a week. We have been back twice on cruises, the last time was in January 2020 and we were amazed at how very touristy the coastal areas near the port have become. Thankfully, once away from the coast, the pace of life was much slower and the countryside remains much as we remembered.

Izzywiz · April 7, 2021

More Bali

Adawn47 · April 7, 2021

1 hour ago, Izzywiz said:

More Bali

We were in Bali in 1994 and your photos bring back some wonderful memories of the beautiful friendly people and countryside. I recognise Tanah Lot, but we couldn't get close as the tide was in.

Avril