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My days are not recorded by a diary, but by photos of sunsets. I can’t imagine writing down what we do every day…or don’t do – we are so boring! Michael is very good about keeping up and blogging about our nightly meals and the local Australian wines we have enjoyed! My days are rememberedContinue reading “Anatomy of a Sunset”

The town is called Margaret River but to surfers around the world it is a WAVE. It breaks around a horseshoe shaped reef which reaches out into the Indian Ocean to draw powerful swells that provide big, consistent surfing waves. The headland at surfers point acts as a natural amphitheater so when the swell isContinue reading “Waves”

So Michael began his wine notes on March 22nd. He has faithfully updated notes with each wine consumed. Instead of putting the information on here, he will be putting it into msquaredwines.com as soon as he figures out the best way to do it. On the other hand I gave up trying to write myContinue reading “Wine Oh’s and More!”

The tides of course come and go so where we can sit to watch the sunsets, when there is a sunset, changes. One of our sunsets we had to back up the beach and sit on the rock Michael’s perched on in the middle photo below. The two of us enjoyed a bottle of whiteContinue reading “Life in the Margs”

We are loving our digs for the next two months. We are in our ninth day and one would think I could have posted about Margaret River before now. Ha ha ha ha! We all have plenty of time on our hands but our brains don’t always want to focus as they should. I’ve enjoyedContinue reading “Prevelly Beach, Margaret River, Australia”

We spent Saturday March 21st getting last minute items like a sim card for Michael’s old apple phone and a sweater or two as the weather gets colder here in the fall. Being connected via the sim card has been a godsend when our Skyroam won’t connect and we need to make Australian calls. WeContinue reading “A trip to Nambung National Park and Pinnacle Desert”

Friday morning the 20th of March we walked early to the little Port of Perth where they have the local ferries along the Swan River to the Indian Ocean as well as ferries to Rottnest Island. By 10:30 we had landed on the little island after a stop at Fremantle to pick up passengers. TwoContinue reading “Rottnest Island and Quokkas”

As you know from my previous post, we arrived Tuesday morning, March 17 and began disembarkation at 10 am. By about 11:30 a.m. our number and color was called and from the blue bus to the Marriott it was a new adventure. When we took a walk after a quick lunch with fellow passengers, weContinue reading “To Perth and beyond! Into the unknown!”

The showers were appropriate since it rained on our parade – uhm cruise plans – but it has rained on everyone in the world. Life will not be the same for anyone over the next 2-6 months! From the day we were suppose to land in Esperance to our rush for Perth, most passengers attemptedContinue reading “Our Last Mariner Days at Sea”

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! ItContinue reading “Port Lincoln, Australia”