Ozwoody

Your right, my old brain is loosing it.🤣

My Dad always said, "there is statistics, and statistics, and damned lies".

Which cruise line? Normally cruises within Australian waters for permanent residents, you only need your drivers licence.

Yes your right, I'm being greedy,🤦‍♂️ But would still like a Princess (or similar cruise line) Fiji from Brisy. Just not keen on P&O, to party ship for this oldie.😉

I can see what you say, but if we have all of them doing the same thing, isn't that reducing their customer base if all the offerings are the same boring repeats??? If they had more options then people would not be going overseas to get more variation in cruising.🤷‍♂️

Exactly

I know I keep saying this,,,,, BUT why is there 3 princess cruises out of Sydney to Fiji in 2025, yet not even 1 from Brisbane????? I know there is 1 Fiji cruise out of Brisbane by P&O, but what is Princess thinking that Brisbane only wants the same old ports, be great to have at least one more option than the same old same old.🤬

Your no doubt on a fairly comprehensive physio regime. Follow it all the way, do everything they say to do, you don't want to have those tendons seizing up, giving you a permanent limp. When I had my knees replaced, I have been very glad it was stressed how important it was.

😲 ooh bugger that looks very unpleasant, really feel for you.

If I had better contacts with the gentleman up stairs, I'd put a request into him, to send it over.😁

Have you been spying on my garden? 😂

In 2019 we came back from a cruise where Perth was our first port of call in Australia, as we came through customs for a day visit, one of those dogs got interested in Hilary, the customs guy ask her if she had any food or plants, she said no, but they actually took her carry bag and searched it, low and behold down in a bottom corner was a semi dried flower that had been put behind her ear at an island stop on the way. she must have taken it and put it in her carry bag during the island visit and forgot it. The customs guy what to her embarrassment was very strict and advised her that he was recording the incident and if she was found to have failed to declare in future she would be fined. The fact that she hadn't realise it was there was no excuse as far as he was concerned. I still tease her about being carful when we're coming through customs.

At least the NSW school holidays don't start for another week & a bit, hopefully for them the rain has run its coarse and they have fair weather then. Quite frankly I'm sick of this constant rain, just as my veggie garden starts to revive, we get another down pore flooding the ground, and killing the roots.🤬

Interesting. is that to stop things being taken in, or stop West Australians escaping?

Being sub tropical, qld seems to attract all sorts of pests, fruit flies, cane toads, root knot nematodes, flying foxes; bipoded denisons from south of the qld border. I must admit at lease the last ones don't attack my garden, so their sort of accepted up here.😏

There was a funny story told to me by a border guard on that border stop, it seemed a big American car was stopped a few months earlier with three guys in it, who were acting quite suspicious, not very co-operative at all. Very reluctant to allow the boot to be opened, a guard insisted on having the boot opened, the drive finally released the boot lid, and the office lifted the lid, as he lifted it up there was a forth guy in it, who popped up and yelled "I'm a fruit fly", the guard got such a fright he jumped back slamming the lid down as he did. The guy in the boot had to be taken to the local hospital for concussion. Moral of the story, Don't Mess with the border guards.🤣

All true, except by car, at least on the east coast, and SA. No border check points now, there was when I was a young fella, but a half century later, and everything is changed. Not sure about WA; Tas; and NT, but can't imagine they would have road border check points these days. ps: yes I know there is a little water between Tas and Vic, but you can still drive via the ferry😁

Yes & No & Both😁 The photo was an example of what I do. Going both ways regards Norfolk island is an internal thing no passport require for Australians. But going and coming back there is a customs quarantine requirement. However if your an international traveller its still not a customs thing, the customs part of the check is to see if your bring prohibited things and/or excess in duty free allowances, during your customs check they also check for quarantine items if any found they have quarantine personnel on hand to check out suspect items. So either way its a quarantine thing.

maʻalahi wale, enjoy your snacks.😁 and you trip. Regards John

For what its worth, this was the status of the Roll Call late January. Regards

Have a great trip, how long will you be in Sth Korea, will any of his ports of call marry up with your stay, for a quick catch up?

In addition to the advice above, we always take a photo of all food stuff we're planning to pack in a group so each item can be clearly seen. When they asked us re food declared we showed them the photo and indicated the bag it was in. Always got excellent feed back from them. These we took to Norfolk, as we grocery were difficult there, at the time.

Hi ceecee Thought someone would have had a copy of a drink menu for you by now. So for lack of a better answer when we were on the Encounter last November, all the basic cocktails I think were around $16. Regards John

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Sorry colourbird, did not mean to offend you, I'm ok with people who like big ships, as indicated the last part of my post. just don't understand theme parks on ships, seemed to me to miss the point of going cruising.🤷‍♂️ I was replying to your post were you said "The best thing would be to get rid of the smaller ships and just build and run the larger ones that can fit substantially more passengers on them". I was pointing out one size does not fit all, and I would like to keep some smaller ships.🙂