Circumnavigation Australia 2024

[phoenixxx]

10 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Anticlockwise for October itineraries. The weather systems mostly come from the west across the Great Australian Bight. It's much more comfortable having following seas than head-on seas. We did this cruise last October and experienced some "interesting" seas around the south-west corner of Australia but Coral handled them very well. It's usually very calm across the top of Australia at that time of year.

 

However sometimes the March/April ones go clockwise which is OK at that time of year. Up north it's still the tail end of our cyclone season.

It's end October clockwise Sydney to Brisbane on Princess. All Princess seen to go clockwise. Do you not recommend this?

Edited August 5, 2023 by phoenixxx
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[OzKiwiJJ]

1 hour ago, phoenixxx said:

It's end October clockwise Sydney to Brisbane on Princess. All Princess seen to go clockwise. Do you not recommend this?

Interesting that they're doing a clockwise itinerary at that time of year. In the past they most went anti-clockwise. 

 

It's hard to predict what the conditions will be like though as it depend on what the global weather patterns are at the time. It's a great cruise to do regardless of which way it goes and being a long cruise going right around Australia there will be plenty of variety in weather as well as sights. 

 

It's definitely one of the great bucket-list Australian cruises.