Goodbye Australia

Fremantle, Friday 29th
I can't believe that a whole week has gone already and as they say, what a difference a week makes.  An absolute stunner of a day here , - not a cloud in the sky with a temperature of about 20 something out of the breeze.  I have changed into long shorts ( or short longs depending on your viewpoint) and although we started off with our jackets on, we were soon carrying them.

We are fortunate to be on the Port side, as this is the side facing the port and the lovely city of Fremantle.  The forklifts have been flat out all day loading supplies before we head off.  I said to Vivian earlier that it doesn't really feel like we are on the great adventure yet, but I know that after tonight when the lights of Australia fade into the distance, the true feeling will eventuate.

Last time we were here our cruise terminated and we went to Perth, so an ideal opportunity to look around Fremantle today.  Being of Scottish heritage we took advantage of the 2 free buses which covered the city very well.  Having established where the "Cappuccino Strip" was, we stayed on the bus until we got back to that stop.  It is certainly an area with literally hundreds of coffee places.  There was one particularly large one on an intersection, but as we couldn't get a seat we went down to Coffee Club, who did a great coffee (& good free internet).

We decided to visit the Arts Centre and jumped off the bus adjacent.  We had to walk up a small hill to the entrance ands found a small sign on the locked gates that it was closed until 2 June due to asbestos removal.  So much for our culture experience in FreO!  Decided to give up the buses and walked back towards CBD to find a supermarket and came across Woolworths and bought our supplies - cough medicine and antiseptic gargle which we couldn't bring from NZ and back to the ship for a VERY light lunch.

A couple of hundred passengers disembarked this morning and about 300 got on this afternoon, so we are pretty well at 100% on this sector to Dubai.  Roughly half of the passengers are doing the Round the World, so we are not alone!  We have just sailed out of Fremantle on our way to Colombo next Friday, so there may not be much in the way of Blog news for a while.  Also, I am still having problems with the photos, but will look at alternative ways to get them posted, as I am well aware that a picture is worth a hundred words!

I have also looked back at some of these postings and see that Mr Autocorrect Gremlin has made some changes to what was intended - nothing to do with Mr Chunky Fingers of course. 

Cheerio for now - off to the Indian Ocean.