Port Lincoln, Australia

Even though you know we have had to remove our bodies and all our luggage from the Mariner, we can admit we did NOT want to leave and loved every minute of what will be only 60 days of cruising. Some of you can’t imagine doing a world cruise. Well we can’t either yet! It was incredible and the three of us would do it again. The problem with “again” is everyone who has been disrupted by this COVID 19 virus has already set up cruises for these ports we missed over the next two years so we’re not sure whats next on our cruising itinerary. We are hoping in August we can make Crystal and Barcelona as Michael is lecturing to Quebec. That certainly might be delayed. We imagine we will have to take it all one month at a time.

Regardless, I need to post on our fabulous time at Port Lincoln. We were able to dock on their grain port and it made it easier to get to buses etc. Larkin and I were able to get our steps in by walking the pier to a little beach past the grain bins. Sand – Check! Right after noon we boarded a bus to Glen-Forest which is an animal preserve that also added a winery – makes tons of sense right?

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According to Larkin koalas smell much better here in south Australia and are softer than the ones she remembers from 2012 on the east coast of Australia! Larkin got the cute photo where the koala reached down and the little boy reached up! You can tell by their ears it was windy. The minute the eucalyptus showed up for dinner the guys climbed down from the trees to eat and of course interact.

Then there were kangaroos! I never though they could give such incredibly adorable feed me faces! Don’t you want to pet them?

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We loved the koalas and the kangaroos but I especially enjoyed my time with all the birds!

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After enjoying the animals, we scurried into the room that was both Glen-Forest entry and wine tasting room! We could help ourselves to taste various wines and they had really nice cheese and cracker plates. We still didn’t know what was going to hit us the next day. We were all still happy campers!

As we enjoyed our tour of Port Lincoln we did not realize our time was near. We thought we had three more ports including Esperance, Albany and Busselton. Luckily we had a few more hours to celebrate with cruise mates including fellow guitar players and an Indonesian dinner in our suite. The flavors were divine! The tofu to die for! And of course the ’47 Zinfandel!

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As you know now, not only was the cruise cancelled, but every cruise in the world has been cancelled. It has been one week since our panic drop off in Perth and every cruise ship sailing the high seas had to find a port to dock at and some still have not been allowed to berth anywhere in the world. We were lucky as we found out two days later when we tried to anchor in Esperance that corporate told us go NOW to Perth – do not pass go – or so it seemed. We made it under the wire to Perth and knew that none of us were Covid-19 positive as we had been too many days in isolation. I guess that was the best news.

For now this is my last post on our excursions on the World Cruise…next will be our last day on the ship and disembarkation in Perth and our next adventure in Western Australia. Thanks for reading our rambling blog! The Three Martini’s!