World cruise 23

February 19 - Redux

Can't resist adding this photo of the little tug that escorted us as we sailed through King George Sound leaving Albany.

February 20

We spent the day sailing north just within sight of the west coast of Australia. The sky and Indian Ocean were gorgeous and blue, and the temperature outside was a low-70s-perfect. The ocean itself was basically calm but with an occasional slow swell. There are probably official terms for all this, but I'll stick with "ideal cruising weather."

After another 2 days of frustration trying unsuccessfully to upload photos, all of a sudden it all worked again, so the blog is caught up to where Margaret talks about trees again. Well, you will possibly have read that before you read this.

On a rather sad note, one of the long-time multi-world-cruise people passed away today. She had become ill and was sent ashore to the hospital in Papeete for an MRI for a supposed gastric problem, but turned out to have stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She chose to continue on the cruise rather than seek treatment either at home or along the way. I think I might have made the same choice. So now, out of about 1,000 passengers, 2 that I know of have died and 1 has been arrested. We're probably right on the odds so far, or maybe a bit low on the number of deaths given the current elderly demographic.