Sea Days...

Well today was our first 'sea day' - after getting up before 5am yesterday to catch our flights we slept in till quite late didn't get up until after 10am!


Thankfully the ship serves breakfast till 11am - so we were still able to get our bacon, eggs, sasuages and whatever else we felt like - then even had Vegemite! yay! This is definately a positive thing, being able to sleep in makes for a much more pleasent trip than the old fairstar days (breakfast only until 9am back then).


Seas have been nice and calm.. only a few little waves and I think I've gotten my 'sea legs' - it actually is very nice to go to sleep to.


Did a walk around the outside of the ship today.. looked at the tennis court, basketball court, etc.
TV channels are very good for a ship at sea - direct feeds from some of the foxtel channels - plus a couple of in house channels.


Temperatures are nice outside - although we've been told to expect Auckland to be rather chilly.
They've got guest lecturers for all of our stops - the lady who talked about Auckland was quite informative.



We've travelled about 550 nm (nautical miles) and we've got about 700 more to go before we get to Auckland - the ship is doing somewhere around 21 knots.



Oh - one thing that's a tad annoying - the internet on the ship sucks big time - very slow and very speed limited (less than 10k/s on downloads, so no downloading for me).

Comments

oz2eu said…
At first I thought you had travelled 550 nanometres in the first day – this would make it a very very long trip to Auckland! (The trip would be 2.31500 × 10^15 nanometres).

What is the food like so far? Did you order any middle of the night snacks?

10 kb/s is quite fast compared to what we had today. No Optus ANYTHING. This is what was broken:

7:50am – 12:20pm
NT / QLD / Northern NSW


OPTUS: Phone signal / calls
OPTUS: Internet
OPTUS: Land Lines
IINET: Internet
3: Internet
3: Phone signal / calls

Lots of banks / ATM’s, the airport (all flights in/out were cancelled by some reports), QLD Health – all offline! People could not call 000 from their Optus Land Lines or Mobiles!

(Yes - they should learn to use 112)

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