Mooloolaba, Australia - "unexpected sea day"

As we anchored right off the coast of Mooloolaba early this morning and we had an early breakfast and were packed for a day at their famous ZOO, Karen looked out the window and said we are not going to get to that Island …so close but so far. The wind was 20 mph with 12-15 knot gusts and 6’ swells. The Captain informed us that the tender operation was ended because of the swells were so high we could not get off the ship. By 8am we back at sea, slowly making our way to Whitsunday Islands.

Mooloolaba is a coastal town on the Sunshine Coast originally inhabited by the Gubbi Gubbi people. It was featured in the 4th season of The Amazing Race. The Steve Irwin Memorial is here because of his strong connection and his global impact on wildlife conservation and associated with Australia Zoo.

We rethought the day with some more food, some exercise, and a newly scheduled class for 12 of us on “The Spice of Life- Exquisite Aromatics”, which was a great seminar on where spices come from and how they are utilized with kitchen demos of how to release the power of spices. The we had a lecture on the “Future of Money” (Bitcoin and digital assets)… not related to anything else but real-world and very interesting. The evening entertainments beside our live music venues was Danny Elliot – The Musical Maestro… the one man band. Danny sings while playing more that 10 instruments. I counted: sax, fiddle, guitar, banjo, clarinet, piano, flute, harmonica, whistle and digeridoo. A real fun showman!!!!Read more