On the following pages there will be an account of our Princess New Zealand cruise / Australian land tour (AKA 21 day Ultimate Australian Outback). A little over a week before we were to leave we received a call that one of the land destinations would be canceled - Darwin. Instead they added an additional day at Uluru and Sydney. So we would have 2 days at Cairns, 2 at Uluru and 3 at Sydney. Being “seasoned cruisers” and travelers especially during the holidays and this time of year flew in a
Next two days our crossing of the Tasmanian Sea was rather calm considering all we had heard people say about this part of the voyage. Those wanting something like the inside passage of Alaska sailing this would not be that calm nor the calm sea of the Caribbean.
We made it to the entrance to Milford Sound just as the fog lifted, but then it started raining which most would think would be bad. But our balcony was under the walkway protecting it from the rain somen. The other good thing was