Today marks about 25% completion of our Viking Cruise. The next 25% will again compromise ports which we have previously visited with a few new one for us. The remaining 50% will be almost all new ports with the exception of the last couple of ports in France and the UK. Our leisurely, consecutive sea days will soon be ending with more port stops and fewer sea days. I believe we have 15 consecutive port days at the end of our journey. It makes me tired to just think about it!
As I have mentioned previously, I love walking on the sundeck. It is usually quiet, especially in the early morning.
It almost feels like I am on a private yacht, or a ghost ship! It seem difficult to believe there are 900 other passengers and almost 500 crew onboard with me.
We enjoyed a couple more quality lectures this morning. One about the history of Sydney, Australia and the second was part 2 about the wildlife of Australia.
We had lunch in the World Cafe. On all of our previous cruises there has always been hand sanatizing stations as you enter the restaurants. These are still there as well as at various other places around the ship. They are no longer dispensers on a stand but are built into the wall as permanent fixtures. In addition at both entrances of the World Cafe you will find this:
Hand washing stations... very nice.
There is not a lot to post for today, but for those of you who have inquired about my photography equipment, I will say a few words.
Over the years I have used various cameras for travel. I tried to leave my full frame 35mm home and use a Sony RXVII on one trip. The Sony is a fantastic camera and weighs about 10% of my full frame with lenses. Unfortunately, I was just never satisfied with the results, especially when severe cropping was required. For this trip I went back to a full frame. I am using a Nikon Z7ii mirrorless camera with two lenses. Primarily a 24mm-200mm Nikon zoom and in some cases a 14mm-35mm Nikon zoom. Most of the photos taken off the ship is with this camera.
My backup camera and the one used for most of the shipboard photos is my phone camera. I use a Pixel 8 Pro. I am amazed at the quality available with this phone camera. It offers up to a 30x digital zoom with acceptable results.
I do all post processing in Adobe Lightroom before posting to the blog.
I have more to say, but I am closing out today's blog. Not enough time and tomorrow we are in Sydney and it will be a busy day.
We did have dinner in Manfredi's Italian, the food was ok, nothing exceptional except the appitizer which was excellent. Service was poor. Kay and I had order an after dinner drink, after waiting about 15 minutes we just left.
The Viking Vocalist gave there last performance tonight, they exit in Sydney. It was a "Beatles Songbook" program. It was quite nice.
See you tomorrow in Sydney.
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