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Komodo Island, part of the lesser Sunda chain of Indonesian islands, is the rugged habitat of the 3m-long Komodo dragon monitor lizard. Komodo National Park covers the entire region and is home to more than 4,000 dragons and is made up of rusty-red volcanic hills, savannah and forests. Its surrounding Continue Reading

Seabourn Sojourn in port same day as Seabourn Odyssey off the coast of Dili Timor is a large, curved island tucked among the Lesser Sunda Islands in the Sunda Sea. The island is divided, as it has been for centuries, with the western half a province of Indonsia and the Continue Reading

Sunset at Darwin Harbor As we leave Darwin Harbor so has the sun set on our adventure in Australia. We are at sea today in the Timor Sea; a relatively shallow sea in the Indian Ocean bounded to the north by the island of Timor with Timor-Leste to the north, Continue Reading

Darwin is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities. It is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbor. On September 9, 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin Harbor during its survey of the area. John Clements Wickham named the region “Port Darwin” in honor of Continue Reading

We left Cairns and are making our way up to the top of Australia. We are now out of the Coral Sea and into the Arafura Sea heading to Darwin in the Northern Territory.  Now seems a good time to talk about our days on the ship. Seabourn Odyssey began Continue Reading

Dive sites GBR Exiting Cairns Harbor Reef-Ho! Boom Parrot Fish – thinks I can’t see him Sea Turtle Cairns AU was our hop off point for the Great Barrier Reef. Cairns is a really cool town/port in NE Australia. I heard someone state that it is the only “western” city Continue Reading

Cairns, the tropical paradise in Far North Queensland, is a city known for its stunning natural beauty, from the Great Barrier Reef to the lush rainforests and waterfalls of the surrounding area.  Day One (we have two days here) we took an excursion to Kuranda and rode the Sky Rail Continue Reading

Known as the Second Capital of Queensland with a population of approximately 193,000 people, Townsville is located about halfway between the tip of Cape York and Brisbane. The area around the cruise terminal is home to many sugar repositories. The area ships out 500,000 tons of sugar from nearby sugar Continue Reading

Airlie Beach is a coastal resort town in the Whitsunday Region of Queensland. There are only 1200 year round residents of Airlie Beach. The island is the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and can be a base for exploring the region so it is very busy. It is eternal Continue Reading

This day was Joe’s birthday (2/24/24) in Australia. I agreed to hoof it down to the coffee shop on the seventh floor since it was his birthday. Joe headed out to the patio with his coffee and promptly spilled his Americano. He made the replacement run. 🙂 We had an Continue Reading