Aus Traveller Posted July 11 #51 Share Posted July 11 28 minutes ago, JimMephisto said: I was on the 6th Dec 1985 Oriana Cruise, which also happened to be the annual FM104 Rock Cruise. Palm Tree Island was North of the main part of Fiji called Rotuma Island. In 1985 the community there decided to end outside tourism. Looking at the Wiki site for Rotuma Island I note P&O managed 2 visits to the Island one of which was Saturday 14th December, the last time a cruise was allowed there. I remember it took a couple of days sailing from Lautoka to get there then about 2 days to get down to Port Vila. We sat with the First Officer at meal times and he told us about the Island and how we would be the last to see it. Interesting info. Thank you for telling us about your cruise.🙂 Welcome to the Forum. I notice that this was your first post. I look forward to reading many more.😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimMephisto Posted July 11 #52 Share Posted July 11 17 minutes ago, Aus Traveller said: Interesting info. Thank you for telling us about your cruise.🙂 Welcome to the Forum. I notice that this was your first post. I look forward to reading many more.😁 It was one of the most beautiful Islands I have ever seen with the most perfect weather. Like from your dreams. I remember they had a tiny jetty with a sign over it with Palm Tree Island written on it. Everyone had their photo taken on that Jetty. The Oriana pulled up in the channel off the coral reef in the bay and dropped off the visitors using the white motorised lifeboats. Such friendly people but behind the scenes, many on the Island were happy we were to be the last cruise to visit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimMephisto Posted July 11 #53 Share Posted July 11 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Aus Traveller said: Interesting info. Thank you for telling us about your cruise.🙂 Welcome to the Forum. I notice that this was your first post. I look forward to reading many more.😁 Must also say, had the honour of being invited for Cocktails into the Captains Cabin during that Cruise. You were given a secret code to push in one of the lifts. While we were there we were joined by Entertainment Officer Dickie Rotter. Now there was a very animated person! Edited July 11 by JimMephisto Spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Traveller Posted July 11 #54 Share Posted July 11 21 minutes ago, JimMephisto said: Must also say, had the honour of being invited for Cocktails into the Captains Cabin during that Cruise. You were given a secret code to push in one of the lifts. While we were there we were joined by Entertainment Officer Dickie Rotter. Now there was a very animated person! That would certainly be memorable. We were invited into the 'Sala Commander' (hope the spelling is correct) on our first ever cruise on the Fairstar in 1983. There was one other couple plus a few officers including the Captain. We didn't appreciate what an honour it was.😁The ship's photographer took a photo which we have in the photo album from that cruise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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