10th
March 2012 - At Sea
When we
went for our walk this morning, the ship was just passing the western shore of
the Gulf of Carpentaria, and we are about 30 nm off Cape Wessel. We are no
longer in sight of land but may pick something up late afternoon.
We are
expected to dock in Darwin tomorrow morning.
After
breakfast we went to a talk on the History of Pilotage, given by the pilot who
has taken us all the way up through the reef. It was really a bit of his life
story, with a sprinkling of the historical background of pilotage. He was a
great speaker and told a fascinating story, interspersed with lots of
information relating to the passage we had made.
It also
seems that the dream run of weather we had steaming through the Torres Strait, is anything but
normal, and we were fortunate enough to experience it at its best.
The talk
ran well over the 1 hour allotted and in the end, they had to stop the
questions coming, or would have been there all day. I hope he writes a book,
because it is a great story.
After the
talk , Carole went off to mahjong and I spent a bit of time in the cabin
updating the blog, ready for when I would get the opportunity to post it.
After
lunch, we went to a movie “The Ides of March” starring George Clooney. That
pretty much used up the afternoon, and it was back to the cabin to spruce up
for dinner.
The cabin
steward had continued his new found habit of leaving an animal made from towels
on our bed.
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