Day 65: Thursday Island, Australia

Our stop at Thursday Island was very quick. We set anchor at 8:00AM and had to be to the last tender no later than 4:30PM. It didn't help that it was a Sunday and raining. The little village was pretty much closed up.

What made today's adventure more fun was our encounter with Joey and Emily at the Thursday Island Supermarket which was going to close at 1:00PM.

Donna and I took the walk and found the supermarket we had a couple of supplies we needed to stock up on. When we got out of the market there were Joey and Emily, two of the Viking Neptune Entertainers with a bunch of bags of assorted supplies, treats, and other items hard for the crew to get on the ship. It was raining - really raining. We felt so sorry for them. But, we came up with and idea to help them out.

We happen to have a few of those cheap rain ponchos the ship supplies us in our daypacks. We helped them out using the ponchos to put their paper bags into to them them from getting soaked and breaking apart for the walk back to the dock. It was fun turning the ponchos into make-shift waterproof bags. We did see them later that night and the supplies made it safely back to the ship.

We did see where the free excursion was happening. It was in a local community center. We peeked in to see what was happening. it was a showing of youth performing cultural dances on the stage. Honestly, by this time into the trip - two months now - we had seen one too many of these types of performances. We are happy we didn't stick around to jump into our later excursion and snuck into this earlier one.

We went back to the ship - food and wine were on our agenda in the World Cafe.

Note: I am writing this post a month after our return home catching up on the missing posts, of which I have 17 days not blogged about.

Once again, people ask what was the best part of our cruise. They are looking for us to tell them about the cool places. Eiffel Tower, Great Barrier Reef, Panama Canal et cerea. What we remember and treasure the most are all the people and interactions we had with them. We will always remember the raining day in Thursday Island and helping Emily & Joey out with getting the needed supplies to their friends back to the ship.Baca selengkapnya