February 25, 2017

    Fremantle, Western Australia, is the final port of the cruise.  The ocean had a small ripple, the skies were sunny, the temperature was 25 C and there was just a bit of wind.  From Deck 12, we could see two Australian navy ships, the largest was called HMAS Adelaide and the other naval ship was smaller.  The berth is close to the harbour entrance where many small fishing boats and pleasure boats were skipping across the water on this Saturday morning.

    After breakfast, we waited with continuing passengers in the Colony Club to be called to go to the buses waiting for today’s excursion. Some of the 647 continuing passengers are staying onboard, but most elected to take tours of Perth and Fremantle or a Swan River valley wine tour.  We officially disembarked and then were directed to a table where we were given the new Seapass card (stateroom key) for the next cruise and an “In Transit” card.  The “In Transit” card was needed to bypass Customs when leaving the ship and when returning today to the ship later, circumventing the registration line for the new passengers embarking for the Southern Australia and New Zealand’s South Island.

  We are taking the next cruise and have kept our same stateroom.  We also have a reservation with Maureen and Bob for dinner each evening.

  Steps until we boarded the bus were 1,968.

The total distance travelled from Sydney to Perth with the stop in Benoa, Bali was 9, 493 km.

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