Darwin

Day 7 - Darwin, Australia

 

From the Navigator - This morning, Dawn Princess will make her approach to Darwin. Darwin's harbor was first sighted in 1839 by John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle. The ship's captain, John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist, who had sailed with him on an earlier expedition on the Beagle. This evening when all passengers and crew are back onboard we will let go our lines and retrace our tracks out of the harbor.

We enjoyed our day in Darwin. Darwin can be hot and humid, but we had a great day with sunshine and low humidity. Darwin is famous for the salt water jumping crocodiles, they will jump almost their whole body length out of the water to reach their prey. We rented a car and spent the day touring with our friends, Joanne and Garry. We visited the Botanical Gardens, Military Museum, Cullen's Bay, toured downtown and ended our day at the Crocosaurus Cove. We watched the croc feeding and then watched our friends enter the cage of death and then they were lowered into three different crocodile enclosure's all the way down into the water. Great to watch. Lol. Four sea days and then the next Port Singapore!

Darwin!

Sea Days, Wonderful Sea Days!

After leaving Sydney Australia we have had 5 sea days before our first Port of Darwin Australia. The weather has gotten warmer each day and the sea has been very calm. We enjoy sea day, lots of actives. We have had one formal night and a special tour of the ship. On deck 7 you can walk completely around the ship, three laps equal one mile. On sea days we try to walk 15 laps per day to counter act the great food we have been eating all day long. Just as I try to be good the cookie and milk girl come around the pool deck with warm cookies. Life is hard. lol

SEA DAYS!

What is a World Cruise?

From today's Navigator-According to the World sailing speed record rules. for the world sailing records, there is a rule saying that the length must be at least 21,600 nm Calculated along the shortest possible track fROm the starting port AND BACK THAT DOES NOT CROSSLAND AND DOES NOT GO BELOW 63 DEGREES S. THE EQUATOR MUST BE CROSSED.

All that being said we are having a great time. We did not get any pictures of the sailway as it was raining and rough seas. That was just the first night and now we having warm and beautiful weather. We had a Greet and Meet with about 70 fellow Crazy Cruiser's members and the Captain showed up to meet us, a very nice man. We are in very capable hands. As you can see we have a hugh selection of food. Today I attended my first Zumba Class, I loved it and Randy and I walked two miles around the ship. We are cruising up the east coast of Australia right next to the Great Barrier Reef. We have five sea days before we get to our first Port of Darwin, Australia.

For the Americans that don't know, Australia is the same size as the United States and has the county population of 22 million the US has 300 million. The US has 52 States and Australia has 6 states. Most of the population is on the East Coast.

Dawn Princess Sea Days!

Our Last Days in Sydney!

We spent a few days in Sydney before the World Cruise. We walked around the City Center and gathered Items that we needed for the Cruise. We enjoyed Sydney it is a wonderful place. We enjoyed Hyde Park on the Sunday before we left, sitting in the sun watching the street performers. We meet with a group of about 22 World Cruiser (we call our self's the Crazy Cruisers 2011) and had diner the night, the before Cruise. It was great meeting; the nice people that we had been chatting with on the Princess roll call on CC for the pass year.

Sdyney and Hyde Park