September 14, 2025
Getting creative to escape the heat and stay cool!!
Sherrie & I took the Tourist Tunnel to go back across the river to our Hotel. It was nice and chill down there and who doesn't like a train with neon & flashing lights on a hot afternoon!
This evening we did a Food Tour in the French Concession neighborhood. I arranged again for 12 of us, but we had to split into 2 groups so John & Colleen joined Bosco & I in the latter group. We had a fabulous time with our Guide Emma and Lucy who joined us from Scotland - she was here training for a new HR job with Trips.com! She was a great addition to the group and we all wish her well in her new endeavors! We all loved the French Concession Neighborhood and the food was again so yummy!
The neighborhood - equally fascinating!
Easter turned out to be a travel day for Bosco and I as we were extremely limited in when we could be seen by the Australian Border Control to disembark from the Ship, for a scuba diving adventure in Raja Ampat that I have had reserved, for over 18 months! We flew from Perth to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Easter afternoon.
I have been really excited to get to Fremantle / Perth for my first time. I have had a few friends live here over the years and I have a second cousin, James Murphy, who I have only ever spoken too briefly, over the last 35 years and that I would love to meet in person. Jim is the older brother of Paul who I met up with in Melbourne a few weeks ago.
Greetings from FREMANTLE or FREO as the locals call it! Getting here took a long week at Sea, as we hid out and dodged wave surges from two cyclone systems. Our departure from Adelaide was timed to carefully avoid the path of Cyclone Narelle and we hugged the southern coastline of Australia, in the shallow waters of the Great Australian Bight . Later in the week we sheltered near Point Culver, before taking the turn and heading North along the western coastline.