Monday, June 27, 2016

26th June 2016


At Sea Overcast with some mist 27c

From the Navigator

Throughout the night and early morning Sun Princess will maintain a westerly heading. At approximately 7am we will pass Marchinbar Island on our port side, continuing on course until we are abeam of Cocker Island on our portside, where we will alter course to the south-west. Once abeam of Lingi point on the Coburg Peninsula, we will alter to port once more and set a southerly heading as we enter the Dundas Strait. As we exit the Strait at approximately 10pm, we will then enter the Timor Sea.

After breakfast this morning we attended the Worship Service in the Vista Lounge conducted by the Customer Service Director Lord Steven Ross who did a really good job.

At 11am I attended a presentation by the Reef Pilot Captain Conlin Warwick who told us about his work piloting ships of various sizes through the Great Barrier Reef which is off the coast of Queensland in this area. He also told us about some of the mishaps which have happened over the years, including in March 1970 when the Oceanic Grandeur hit a rock which was right in the middle of the channel and uncharted. It was amazing that no other ship had hit it. The rock is now charted and has been given the name of OG Rock, he said he is not sure if it was named after the Oceanic or if it was Oh Gee! While I was at my lecture Betty went to the Aerobics Studio to find out about 5 in 1 Sun Glow mineral make-up. 7 people turned up and 3 were from our group.
Our entertainment tonight was to go to the Princess Theater to see the second show of Vocalist Chris Powley who we saw a couple of night ago. He is a terrific entertainer and we now how his CD. Lots to read tonight with tomorrows Patter and info on Darwin where we will be tomorrow.

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